Why Xbox cloud gaming is a bigger killer app than Game Pass – Reader’s Feature
Frustrated at not being able to buy a PS5, a reader gets an Xbox Series S instead and is very impressed by its cloud streaming service.
It was when I opened my browser and fired up a brand new console game that the penny dropped. Have you tried Xbox Cloud Gaming? If you can, you really should.
The first thing I’ll say is I’ve never had any particular wish to board the Xbox train. After all, using any of Microsoft’s other bug ridden and stupidly designed services usually result in me damaging something expensive.
Yet, like many others (I assume), I was nudged towards Xbox almost by accident, simply due of the relative ease of picking one up. It was always smugly lurking next to that ‘currently unavailable’ PlayStation 5 listing every time I checked if I could have the honour of ordering Sony’s gleaming white monolith.
So one day I bit, did the unthinkable and ordered myself Microsoft’s own Xbox Series S, along with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. After all, there’d be plenty of time to join in the PlayStation 5 fun when the supply issues sorted themselves out (still waiting, Sony!).
As a predominantly Sony (and Nintendo) gamer, I was immediately impressed with Game Pass, it’s range of games, and of course its incredible value for money. But for me the true hero of Microsoft’s latest offering is its fledgling cloud gaming service.
In an instant it clicked, and I saw the future.
Similar to my first game of Wii Tennis many moons ago, there was that magical sense of ‘Just how is it doing that?’ when I started up a game in my Mac’s browser and was propelled back into the familiar dream worlds of Psychonauts 2 in mere moments.
Immediately Raz was legging and leaping about with no lag at all from the buttons I pressed. Why, I felt
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