xCloud needs to support Smart TV's and browsers ASAP!

[LucasTaves]

@digitalrelic

I think MS wants to avoid the mistakes made with Stadia. They don’t want to promote xCloud as a replacement for traditional gaming. Because it isn’t. A 720p stream with minimal latency works great on a phone, but not so much on a 65" screen.

I could see them pushing Smart TV and streaming box apps forward in 2021, when they transition their xCloud datacenter to Series X hardware. I could see this allowing for lower latency and higher quality (1080p+) streams, at which point it would make sense for them to bring the app to Smart TVs, and even last-gen Xbox One consoles.

Xbone already supports 1080p60 streaming so even with current hardware they could enable it.

The latency improvements on SX if notable could make for a better 1st impression indeed.

[digitalrelic]

@LucasTaves

Xbone already supports 1080p60 streaming so even with current hardware they could enable it.

The latency improvements on SX if notable could make for a better 1st impression indeed.

I thought xCloud was limited to 720p right now? And only console streaming (streaming from your local Xbox One) supported 1080p.

[LucasTaves]

@digitalrelic

I thought xCloud was limited to 720p right now? And only console streaming (streaming from your local Xbox One) supported 1080p.

Yep, Xcloud is currently limited to 720p, but that’s a soft lock, the hardware is able to stream at 1080p60.

They mentioned something about that when the trials started, that they were limiting to 720p because they wanted to test the lower end or something like that.

[Underbaker]

“We’ll also continue to listen to our community and add new features, games and perks to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate over time, including news at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event tomorrow (August 5).”

Xbox Wire Post

Well they are announcing something, might be phone related though…