With streaming services becoming the norm for media, Microsoft joined the gaming industry in creating its own streaming service for gaming, xCloud. Xbox has always had big plans for the xCloud streaming service, some of which it hasn’t been able to fulfill yet. However, more news shows this hasn’t stopped the company from pushing its plans to expand the service to other platforms, let alone Xbox consoles.
Since it was released, the Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer has statedXbox’s ambitions for xCloudhave included bringing the service to players across as many devices as possible. The service has certainly faced some issues in doing so, but this hasn’t dissuaded the company from pursuing these plans. Especially when it comes to fulfilling the goal of expanding the service to as many devices as possible. Spencer spoke with IGN on one such plan: bringing xCloud to Xbox consoles.
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Spencer would continue to state he wants the service to run smoothly for console and PC players as it does for users on mobile devices. The streaming service is only available to Android phones and tablets at the moment, andApple blocked xCloudfrom Apple products due to its new store policies. This keeps Microsoft from streaming games from the Xbox library to Apple devices, which caused a strong reaction from players and customers on the new changes. Not to mention the streaming service is currently unavailable to the Xbox consoles as well, but the company intends to change that.
There were evenrumors of iOS testing for xCloudlast week that hinted towards more news soon to be revealed, but that remains to be seen. For now, players will still need to use the service on Android devices or download games from the Xbox Game Pass rather than stream them. xCloud has always been an ambitious project for Microsoft, and the company still plans to bring thestreaming service to Xbox console and PCfor players to enjoy, in due time.
