I’ve had a chance to play with Google Stadia on an iPhone 12 Pro Max and the experience was far better than I expected, even over WiFi. Warren also notes that some games work with touch, but as you’d expect, most are best experienced using a Bluetooth-connected controller.

This is all powered by Xbox Game Pass, so there are more than 100 games available - and even some original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles that can be streamed. It feels like I’m playing on an Xbox in the cloud, and there’s a dashboard that lets me access friends, party chats, achievements, and invites to games. If you run this through a web browser on a PC or iPad, you’ll even get a 1080p stream. Once the connection settles down, it’s very similar to xCloud on Android. Warren describes the experience as follows: Although the games run on older Xbox One S hardware in Microsoft’s data centers, which means longer load times than current hardware, the UI appears to scale nicely across devices. The beta is invitation-only, but if you’re a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and are invited to test the streaming service, you can use it on PCs and Macs via Edge, Chrome, or Safari, as well as on iPhones and iPads.Īt The Verge, Tom Warren has a short walkthrough video that tours the service’s UI on a Windows PC. As we reported earlier this week, Microsoft began inviting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to beta test Xbox Cloud Gaming yesterday.

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