Microsoft Introduces xCloud Game Streaming Service

Microsoft has provided a live demonstration of its upcoming Project xCloud streaming service. The software maker initially unveiled xCloud last year, promising a cloud gaming service to stream games on computers, consoles and mobile devices. Although general manager Satya Nadella promised trials later this year, we still have not heard much about xCloud or when it will appear completely. Microsoft has not yet a specific date, but the company has now publicly introduced xCloud for the first time.

At Microsoft's Inside Xbox event last night, Microsoft showed Forza Horizon 4 Streaming from the company's Azure data centers to an Android device. An Xbox One controller has been connected to the phone via Bluetooth, which shows how easy it will be to stream games from the cloud to mobile devices.

Kareem Choudhry, head of Microsoft's gaming cloud, appeared in this segment and revealed in a blog post that the company was not trying to replace its consoles with xCloud. "We're developing Project xCloud not to replace gaming consoles, but to offer the same choice and versatility that music and video enthusiasts enjoy today," says Choudhry. "We're adding more ways to play Xbox games."

Microsoft's reminder that xCloud exists and will be the subject of public testing later this year, comes just as Google is preparing to unveil what it calls "the future of the future." Thu". Google has announced that it will unveil its vision of the game at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). the week. According to rumors, Google would publicly launch its own game streaming service and the company could unveil its own game controller next to the service.

However, Google is not the only competitor that Microsoft will be facing in the cloud streaming. Sony has its own PlayStation Now service and even allows you to remotely play your PS4 games from an iPhone or iPad. Nvidia operates its GeForce Now streaming service. Shadow and Liquid Sky are also trying to convince players that streaming games is the future. Microsoft and Google may be the big tech companies that make a lot of noise when it comes to streaming games this year, but Amazon also seems to want to eventually stream the games to you.