Xbox Cloud Gaming Revisited (Late 2022): Ready Yet?
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It's been more than a year since my last video about Xbox Cloud Gaming (aka xCloud) and as we're quickly approaching 2023, I wanted to do a quick revisit on the service to see if it's ready for primetime, where you can recommend non-enthusiasts to try it out. Is it ready yet? Find out in the video.
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8:54 Conclusion
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I just found out about gamepass and it’s incredible for a person like me, who doesn’t own any console nor good pc for gaming, I only have a laptop for working, which also doesn’t have much ssd space left, so cloud gaming has been really good for me.
That's awesome :) it's really great for people without crazy hardware
@@hoyoungwon I'm glad u enjoy
The fact it's still in beta I think it's really going to take off and dominate
I don't think it will ever dominate, but it'll be an option I suppose
@@SuperHitman55 why
@@AndreWrldShorts Latency will always be an issue
@TallDryGlass I just checked today and the beta symbol is there
@@SuperHitman55 if they make it so you can play any game you buy digitally it will dominate
This could change hand-held gaming forever
Excellent video + information
Brilliant video mate, love the game pass and use it alot. I have the fold 3 and the adaptive controller, a great experience around 👍 also love the sponsor but when you said I don't have a 'tablet' ... then tested Xbox cloud gaming on a tablet done me 😂😂😂
Thanks for watching! Lolol the iPad is my wife's 😅. Though I did borrow it from her for the last few weeks...so a video on that coming up real soon LOL
I beat Yakuza 6 ,using only touch control
I beat crash bandicoot 4 on only mobile
Red dead redemption 2 here on stadia with touch controls lol
I'm really enjoying odyssey via touch controls rn
@@Anniemax1 poor stadia
Our king
I love this thing, I'm always away working 6 days a week and so I never have more than an hour a day to myself in the break room or in my car during lunch and just playing xbox cloud games on my fold with ANC earbuds is one of the greatest feelings. I just sit down at my desk of choice, take out my phone and earbuds from my pocket and my controller out of my draw/glovebox and just enjoy some of my favourite games. It's really helped me to take a break when I needed it and the support team help whenever there is any issues. 11/10 , have sent my friends the link for the $1 trial and even bought the prepaid cards for Xmas gifts.
It's the best. Gaming is becoming my fav hobby as i get older and I'd never have time to sit in front of an expensive console. I've gotten into the cloud recently did a lot of hw. I use a service called shadow pc which works for me but is a tad expensive and requires purchasing games or having a steam library. X cloud has a few issues but is more than worth the price of what you get i pay for it. I personally like it with a razer kishi controller but the touch is awesome as well. Good on Microsoft this is an awesome service. More ppl should know about it and not hate on the cloud.
This! I don’t have the time for hour long updates on installed games and with the xboxseries s idont have the space either. Its the perfect option if you dont have much time (as a father of 2 kids) and dont want to play online shooters
I would suggest everyone to use the Xbox Live Gold to Game Pass conversion 1:1. You can get a maximum of 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate for about 120$ which is a big save (That offer can be used in new or old accounts).
Great video Ho Young Won! I completely agree with you on all your points.
Thank you so much for watching!
Nice 2nd screen I've never seen that setups before
I use it alot on my phone, works really well most the time. I would definitely recommend.
I'm on the 2nd month now and even with some rendering artifacts I really enjoy the game pass ultimate so far tbh.
I wonder how much the xbox cloud console will cost.
i tried it again last night and its definitely getting better, at least now it is very playable.
Bro I love Xbox cloud gaming. It’s so awesome playing it
very good in 2023, amazing in fact, i tried cloud gaming in 2020 and 2019 and it was so bad it hurt to even think about gaming, as I didn't have anything good to play on. Now I have a gaming pc but I was amazed how good the cloud streaming was, its actually revolutionary
I think $15 a month to get access to multiple games on Xbox Cloud Gaming is a really good deal, especially if you dont have $1000 to drop on a gaming PC or console and $60 per game. With how expensive gaming hardware has gotten because of covid, I doubt you'll be able to find an Xbox Series X for $500. Plus its so nice being able to play every game on ultra graphic settings without having to worry if your hardware could run it or not. The only catch is you need to have good internet connection. Im lucky that my internet service is good where I live, so Im able to get smooth gameplay without much input lag from my experience
Its a perfect deal, i always dreamt about having a console, never in a million years i tought i would be playing assassin's creed, far cry 5, watch dogs in my 150$ shitty laptop that i use for collage 😂 i cannot thank xbox enough
I agree that the cloud service needs a dedicated storage option so you can permanently own your digitally purchased games and not have to keep them natively eating up valuable storage space, especially on the XBox Series S. I think Phil Spencer will work something along this option out because this will keep active users for the cloud service extremely high. There are plenty of ways to make this a big money maker for when people go to the Game Pass hub to use their cloud storage and gameplay options. I also think that cloud gaming should be included in your Gamepass Ultimate once it's out of Beta and becomes a stand a lone product. Cloud gaming has huge potential for Microsoft if they keep it merged with Gamepass.
I'm not sure what you're describing, because streamed games are specifically not supposed to be installed on your machine and thus take very little if any actual local storage space (bar maybe a few temporary files needed to run the stream, just like a regular media player would). But I think that rather than cloud gaming, you would be referring to cloud *computing* services where there is a persisting user storage space of which a given subscriber can do whatever he/she wants and get back to it next time the service is accessed again after logout.
At present that's the problem with all traditionnal cloud gaming services based on a GaaS model, where you have only minimal access to the virtual machine from which a given game is running and being streamed. That also presents licencing problems since the companies behind the service will need to have cached copies of their game spread over more physical computers or consoles (racked in their datacenters) than than they have licences themselves, if any. The user has purchased the licence, but the company caches copies of downloaded games in multiple places that it does not technically own either.
This would currently be the biggest current legal headache for cloud providers, and kills a lot of releases on Nvidia's GFN which I use, for instance. It's not technically a problem, but an easily exploitation loophole that any greedy company unwilling to release a given game on a given cloud platform will use to forbid its deployment there.
THe only cloud gaming service that has been able to circumvent that limitation is a lesser-known one named Boosteroid, which offers the possibility to stream directly for games it is authorized to host on its datacenters, or "install on VM and play" , which actually triggers a download of your legally purchased game on the current Boosteroid VM that has be dedicated to your gaming session, that will then be wiped after you get out (saves being securing in your DRM's cloud), only for your to reinstall it again next time you play. Yeah it feels counter-intuitive if not outright stupid and eats up a lot of ressources with disks constantly writing and deleting dozens of gigabyes of game data per user, but that's the only way not to be bothered with licencing issues and offer a virtually unlimited amount of games in your library.
Until the industry fully moves onto the cloud era, in spirit and tech, and every single studio stops caring where exactly its legally purchased games are ran from by their users, this will remain the only way to secure games for a given service !
Stadia was so good as far as game streaming goes. They stayed stagnant instead of evolving/progressing. if they had started mobile streaming like Xbox, they would still be in business imo.
It’s brilliant I think if your playing online and don’t have the best WiFi it’s not so good but when it comes to just story mode it’s bang on tbh
As soon as there's a streaming stick I'll pick it up. Hoping the price will drop too but I wouldn't hold my breathe on that one
I'm betting it will once there's that stream-only option :)
Recently got a controller for my phone and as someone that owns a gaming pc and am used to 120hz goodness, im super impressed with this service, i havent used my gaming pc in a few days... Super responsive input and very little image quanoity issues rhat i can tell on my phone's screen. I do have 1ghz up and down which id assume wkuld help but dang, this is incredible ! Makes me wonder if i should bother upgrading my pc moving forward!
Exactly!! Glad you're enjoying it 😁
It's nice to find a review reviewing from korea where I live! I've been considering gamepass for quite some time-especially since it is cheaper in korea than the states. However, my ms365 sub is on my us account. Do you have any experience or know if it possible to get the Korean gamepass sub on the same account? Or would I have to make a new Korean account to use the Korean gamepass subscription? Thank you!
Nice to see a comment from someone living here as well 😊. I personally switched my MS account to a Korean one via the MS account settings so I'm not totally sure about that situation!
So I’ve had covid the past week and I’ve been quarantined w my partner so the tv hasn’t been available. I started using xcloud on my phone and I have been blown away, it’s so good. I’ve I could play any game I buy I would sell my series x.
I use this on starlink. The only issue I find is the occasional screen tear which is no big deal for most games. But anything competitive needs alot more work. But overall a great experience and a couple friends I have who have it to use on their crap laptops makes it very accessible. It's definitely a lot better than it used to be.
I used to use Stadia and it was much better, the best right now is GeForce now..hopefully Xcloud can step up
I'm patiently waiting for keyboard/mouse functionality for most games.
I prefer PC gaming, but dislike upgrading my computer every few years lol.
It would be so great to play assassin's Creed on my tablet with a mouse + keyboard haha.
Beautiful thing about xbox cloud gamepass is that u don't need to own most of games especially consoles version. rest of all cloud gaming need u to own a game
I am using my Galaxy Foldz4 with a Xbox MG-X Pro which attaches to my phone fits perfect when unfolded and it has become my main source of gaming even though I own a Series X and PS5 lol I will get to Ragnorok soon but having a toddler and between work I don't have alot of time to sit in front of a console but laying in bed and streaming some triple A titles is so next level.
I'm not even a hardcore gamer by any standard. But I was feeling nostalgic about playing xbox 360 games again. When my dusty 360 couldn't cut it any more, I stumbled on cloud gaming and I'm pretty hooked thus far. So that bodes we'll for general consumers. Granted i have fiber wifi and a flagship android device. So the barrier for entry may still be high
I used it and I canceled it, because it was getting to expensive to play for only a few hours a week. Also I wish they would bring more AAA games… I loved the fact that I could play it wherever I want it without being obliged to play it from the couch of my living room where the TV is and I have to share with all the other members of the family. As you said, I also wished that there would be an option that allowed me to buy the games that I could play through streaming (and without the need to pay any subscription- kind of like stadia.
Bummer! But I'm glad we're on the same page. How was the experience though? Good performance for you?
@@hoyoungwon average
@@rogeriogomesosorio4755 better than bad 😂
"Too expensive to play?" Its the cheapest way to game. You dont even need a xbox to play.
@@dman1848 it’s cheap considering it’s the cost of 3 aaa games, a year.
This would be great if you could use your microsoft reward points to exchange for Xbox cloud gaming time. For example, you could exchange 100 reward points for 1 hour of game time on Xbox cloud gaming. That would be way better than the current rewards.
I wonder if they'll bundle their upcoming streaming stick with their controllers in the future, might be a good way to get everyone to start cloud gaming.
Wouldn't doubt it!
google did it and stopped it.
The idea is to play on devices which you already own
@@Mercan1556 what if you want to play on a unsupported tv?
I do think it's ready. Honestly, 3 months ago, I couldn't enjoy Xbox cloud on my home internet with about 600 down but only 20 up (Xfinity sucks like that) because of artifacts, screen tearing, sound issues. I just finished a session this evening on puny hotel Wi-Fi (15 down/15 up) and it was ALMOST flawless. So just in the past weeks something seems to have gotten better. I always carry my Nintendo Switch (can't go wrong there for portability if the wifi sucks) but I'm having better luck now with Xbox cloud as well.
Still not ready. Needs more time. I am enjoying on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A8.
Mine has been working great on my iPad, but last week it just stopped working. MS support wasn't really any help either. There were no changes on my end, games just stopped working. Still stumped and have gone through a ton of trouble shooting and changes to my network. If they can figure out the stability, it will do really well!
Hi there. I plan to use Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) on my Android tablet - the Xiaomi Pad 5. What do you think is the best (or ideal) game controller that you can recommend? Thanks in advance. Cheers.
I really like it
Here's what I'm looking forward to the most with this service, it's for games that we'd purchased to be a available to play on a portable cloud gaming console.
Sure, there will be a downgrade in terms of graphics, but if we want to play this while in bed after a long day, or because we're sick, or outside ... Then we'd be able to.
Still Beta, still working on it, but I hope they keep going! They're onto something there and I'd like for Microsoft and Don't to give Nintendo a run for their money.
I know they are coming to Nividia but I use this for now until they move over to GFN as a 4090 as a GPU would be insane!
For those who complain about performance - split your SSID'S on your router and just connect to the 5ghz one when you want to play xcloud games, you'll still experience some connection issues here and there but it works well about 90% of the time
Those who complain about the price...it would cost you less in the long term to buy this service flat out for 10 years than it would be to buy a console, a controller and all the games currently available to play.
It's a no brainer for me, I don't have time to download a game for several hours just to see if I like it.
If I owned a console or PC I'd probably only be interested in one or two games and play them religiously...I don't mind trading off a bit of performance because I get to play a variety of games that I'd never think to play
What about using Xbox Cloud Gaming on an Nvidia Shield TV? Will it be a good experience?
I just got into the cloud in August. Work Hella hours and the house is full of kids so I wanted some games my switch can't handle. X cloud is absolutely the best bang for your buck. That and a shadow pc subscription are the only cloud services I use.
🔥🔥🔥
can't wait for kbm to come to cloud
I would like to play on my android tablet...Any recommendations for controllers that are compatible, and good value for money ?
What laptop should I buy for christmas tomorrow, what laptop for gaming just like you, Xbox Cloud Gaming where I want to be able to have my Samsung Au8000 tv playing the image video and using my XBox controller- I dont know if my Samsung 65 inch 8000 tv will have the XBox app equipped on smart hub screen as it hasnt been delivered until Dec 28 and hung by Best Buy TOTAL TECHnicians
For my experience, I've been pixelating on the Xbox App on Windows for more than a month now. When I launch it on the Edge browser the image is steady, but with micro stuttering every second. It was working good before for me, now it's not. Thus is the problem with cloud gaming, it can be good and then ur isp messes up something and it's not good. I highly recommend anyone trying a demo or use a gamepass trial first, before committing to it.
Google Stadia was to me the best experience in cloud gaming. I will hardly miss Stadia after January 18th😢 So I’ve been shifting over to GeForce Now.
3080 tier GeForce now is where it's at. A better more fluid experience when compared to even stadia.
@@lastmanstanding80 yes I have booked RTX 3080 in GeForce Now but I have experienced that Stadia was more fluent. On top i can't play most of my Steam games in GeForce Now. For example Days Gone isn't available in my GeForce Now Games library.
Days gone is a meh story driven exp with a meh open world. There's just no replayability in that game. Get zombie army 4 for PC instead. You won't be able to put the controller down.
Was a supporter of game pass from the beginning and still am.
So once this service is perfected what would be the point of owning an Xbox ? Does the console allow the games to run at a level this revive would never allow ? And I guess the console would allow offline gameplay
Not being able to play couch local player on mk11 and killer instinct is the most frustrating thing for me. Apart from that it's pretty incredible what you get for the price
I need to try using cloud gaming more on public Wifi and cell service. I’ve only messed around with it on my home Wifi which is pointless since I can just play on my actual console haha. As someone who’s going to be traveling more often for work, being able to play in airports and hotels is make or break. I’d rather not buy a gaming laptop or Series S just for travel on top of my Series X.
You can buy the game and use remote play. It doesn’t have to be only x cloud games. You can stream all your purchased games already.
That's only if you have a console or gaming PC to do remote play from. This video is exclusively about Xbox Cloud Gaming.
I try and play on my laptop sometimes over 5ghz WiFi 150-200mbps down and 60mbps upstream and I still get lag and artifacting you think if I use a ethernet cable and get my full gigabit speed I will see an improvement?
Is it really worth the money? The only thing Im concerned about is the latency or the input lag because I am sensitive about it. I dont want to regret spending money on this
I have spotty internet and whenever I want to play flight simulator, I’m forced to play it on cloud gaming because apparently they don’t want you to be able to download it unless you buy it. And then I’m stuck playing with unresponsive controls and random screen freezes
i bought just a gamepass for sea of thieves but my pc can run it on lowest settiings on 30fps i think i might get the 15 eur thing to play on better graphics
I don’t know if it got better before it was shut down, but I tried stadia mid way thru Covid and it was really bad for me. Game performance and input was really laggy on my 300 mbps. So if you’re saying this is slightly worse than stadia, then maybe it’s not for me
If there’s a trial I’d give it a shot but I’m thinking I’d really need gig internet speeds to use this
What about now in late 2023, any further improvements since this video was made?
i cant get it work i try to install it but it says i need a device 😕
Please make a vedio playing FIFA with two controllers on ipad or tablet
If you’re a casual gamer that just wants to play games cloud gaming is amazing.
2.4 ghz or 5ghz band wifi? Who is better? Or stable
Battlefield 2042 on xcloud is almost flawless
My Series X is at home, I’m tryna play my game Pass games off my iPhone 14 but it won’t let me. I have GP Ultimate but I can only play games off the web browser. Is there a way I can play my games thru the Xbox or Game Pass app?
I tried game pass ultimate to try xbox cloud gaming just a couple of months after Outriders came out... So september 2021. Apart from the annoying input delays at times, I still managed to beat the game. Playing multiplayer games was a huge no no because the couple of milleseconds of input delay could mean life or death in some games. I cancelled my subscription because of the input delay (despite having fiber internet)
watching this video makes me want to revisit xbox cloud again.
I have a ps5, but play on my iPad. Still thinking it’s worth it cause my job rn I get ample time to play games. I play fortnite just cause it’s free but I see all the gears of war a lot of games I used to play. But I would only be playing on my iPad which is fine with me. I just don’t have pc. I do have a Samsung tv tho. Wonder how u do it through a Samsung tv.
How do you get it to sideload on Amazon fire tv cube? Any help would be appreciated.
I have xbox x controller using Amazon tablet and controller does not rumble.i don't have console.thats major flaw with Xbox game pass.need to make the controller rumble!!
I heard there will be new announcement later this year
It's been ready
I use cloud for smaller titles because they run smooth with some screen tearing. Until Microsoft can improve it I would play it on bigger titles
xcloud is now working really well when outside. Sadly not at home. maybe my network.
I fully support cloud gaming and hope it gets even bigger! I'm tired of buying consoles and was always of fan of mobile gaming.
Cloud gaming is the future for accessible gaming. The only catch is that it will hurt the pockets of hardware sellers
The app version has all games open to play even if they don’t play well, as the web cloud gaming only alllows you to play games that are cloud playable games which is tested to run well. I cannot play Call of duty on web cloud but I’m able to play on iPhone pro max app on 5G very well. I did hear that Apple is trying to eliminate the app as a poses a threat to Apple’s gaming market
I was shocked I could not use the keyboard + mouse on my laptop. For shooters, it sucks.
So I got a fairly new Samsung tv. Is it on the App Store or something. Cause then it would for sure be worth it. Cause then I can play on my iPad and tv thru my tv.
Should be if it’s a 2022 model!
I suppose this is when the phrase 'YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY' is more of a positive than when Herr Klaus says it.🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Is the app not on the apple App Store anymore?
I feel like the biggest problem with cloud gaming is leaving the setup behind you already had - like a gaming PC and 1000 games on your steam account. I mean it only makes sense if you eliminate the gaming hardware or you will be paying twice.
You do have services like Nvidia Geforce now that lets you access (at least some) of your steam/Epic library via cloud servers.
Not beta now....I use gamepass cloud on my Motorola One 5G...the screen is the size of the Steam Deck ....works fine ..use my wireless Xbox controller...
If you haven’t already you need to try GeForce now. The resolution looks native even on a 4K or 1080p screen and response time is very good even for competitive games
GeForce Now and especially the 3080 tier is absolutely amazing. 👍
@@pancon5 Oh I forgot it was using the 3080, that’s why it was running so good 😂
@@rage2387 Haha yes, that tier is 🔥🔥
Wait, it's good for competitive games too?
I tried it tonight on my s23 ultra and its in playable.. I keep letting like a shadow line that keeps coming down the screen and it's glitchy af aswell
how does it feel by using the razer kishi controller to play games?
It's awesome :) the DPAD could be better though
I'm envious your not getting any latency or input lag when playing. I've been trying xcloud a lot recently and some games have been literally unplayable. Fast pace games like Doom or Moonscars I get so much input delay. Other services like Gforce now or Stadia have been almost perfect performance for me.
Racing and fps games are impossible to play on cloud
Go to your router settings and make two separate SSID channels, one for 2.4ghz and one for 5ghz, this way you can connect to the 5ghz channel when playing xxloud games, this will allow you to acceess the highest possible speed for your streaming.
Just make sure to give the SSID's separate names so you can indentify which channel is which before you connect (they can have the same password).
I have a crappy virgin media router and gave up on cloud gaming until I did this trick and now I can stream the games from my phone from pretty much anywhere in my home.
Try it out, but research the settings for your specific router first. Let me know if it works lol
@@5thdimension665 sorry for the late response I finally got around to configuring my router a bit. I ensured 5ghz is on and also turned on port forwarding which I also heard was recommended. It does seem to work better now 👍 there are still games im noticing performance issues however it's a major improvement from before. Thank you for this suggestion!
Definitely some game work better than other. Sometimes blue tooth controllers make it worse and can also cause interference + additional latency. For example my android phone has real bad latency and seem the design of the phone is the cause. Where as my iPhone and iPad have 8-16ms latency which is really low. I believe newer phones do better because of the Wi-Fi 6 capabilities too. Right now gears 5 and halo I have no noticeable latency or lag. But games like forza and a plagues tell there is lag but still playable
Me: *tabs out for 0.4 sec*
Xbox Cloud Gaming: Aight imma head out
Can you download games from Xbox game pass to your phone?
do you know that when is this going to be available in INDIA
no competitor? gfn!?!?! on gfn sometimes there is 50% off... thats insane.
I have not tried it again for a year now but the last time I tried it was unplayable. Meanwhile geforce now have amazing performance but the downside is the game library. I wish the game pass would work for me as well
Everyone hated on stadia but it was the best service as far as streaming quality. Xcloud is not as smooth or consistent. The product offering is excellent though so I'm sure it will eventually get there.
Not ready..
Number 1 in the hole world. The best service to play in the cloud. 😊
Your allowed to own this tech in S Korea?
I enjoyed it 😄
The fun part is that soo many people whine and have little mental breakdowns and start talking with the 'raised pleading voice' out in public when they find out that you don't actually own an Xbox but can still play xbox games for fun. As If rental-based gaming is some kind of conspiracy hahaa
My favorite was a guy who pretended to have a webdav or some dumb thing like that, he got sooooo defensive so quick against the idea of using gamepass to stream stuff lol. whine whine! 😝
hey could one play Diablo IV on xbox cloud now?
is game pass the same thing as game pass ultimate
"Grainy version of 1080 p " ,yes that's my only issue so far,it's not immersive
My problem is that there is always input delay and it’s super annoying
Me too, i cant play some streaming with games, like Xcloud, Stadia or any streaming things. I'm too used to the PC (or Xbox Series X with 120Hz Monitor, not TV) where there is no input lag.🙅🏻♀️🙁 Playing mobile for travel (not at home) on my iPad with Controller and going to xcloud, nice idea from Microsoft but i cant play with annoyed input delay. If mobile, then I play with my Nintendo Switch. ☺️😅
I't Still amazes me how I am able to play xbox X games on my iPad Air... =)
How far away can you be for this, is it limited or unlimited. Like could I be in Australia with my console in France?
You don't need your console! It's all over the internet like playing a CZcams video :)
With different servers around the globe. I think you’d need a VPN
The latency is horrible.