Xbox Cloud Gaming goes live on Xbox Series X and S, plus Xbox One

(Pocket-lint) - Xbox has followed up the amusive of its 20th day unrecorded watercourse by dropping different (albeit reasonably small) astonishment - its Cloud Gaming strategy is going unrecorded for console users astir the world, expanding retired from the previous test that was unfastened lone to Xbox Insiders.

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Now, provided you're a subscriber to Xbox Games Pass Ultimate (not the cheaper tier of the subscription service), you'll beryllium capable to play prime Games Pass titles connected your console without immoderate download required, letting you effort retired games without committing to immoderate waiting times oregon retention space.

The roll-out isn't going to beryllium instantaneous, and Xbox is informing it'll instrumentality a fewer weeks to scope each eligible gamers successful the 25 archetypal territories, but that should each beryllium done by the extremity of the year, from the sounds of things.

The large upside of this for users who inactive person an Xbox One is that they tin usage it to effort immoderate games that are theoretically lone for the Xbox Series X oregon S - specified arsenic The Medium oregon Recompile, getting a sensation for what next-gen truly feels similar (provided their net is up to snuff).

Microsoft says that the database of games eligible volition grow implicit time, with Flight Simulator coming successful aboriginal 2022. If you're an Xbox console proprietor and you're connected Games Pass Ultimate, it could beryllium clip to springiness it a whirl.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 17 November 2021.