Key Takeaways
- Microsoft has reportedly begun internally testing Xbox Cloud Gaming support for its own games.
- This feature is rumored to be coming to the Xbox Insiders program before the end of November 2024.
- The ability to stream your own Xbox games has been in the works since late 2019, when Microsoft first promised to deliver the feature, dubbed Project xCloud.
Microsoft has reportedly begun testing. Xbox cloud gaming Supports games fully owned by the user. The experimental feature, which will soon be available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers, has been in the works for five years.
Microsoft initially announced support for streaming owned games in X019 in November 2019, when Xbox Cloud Gaming was still called Project xCloud. At the time, the company said a beta version of the feature would be released in 2020. Although this didn't come to pass, Microsoft has occasionally reiterated that support for streaming Xbox games purchased since then will still be available.
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The company may finally be ready to deliver on that promise, according to a new report from The Verge that Microsoft recently began testing the feature internally. The current service version is said to support 10 games. Half of those were available on Xbox Game Pass, and this group includes: brightness, High on life, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, metro exodusand The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The remaining 5 people dredge, dying light 2complete version of The Witcher 3and the Xbox One version Crew Motorfest and PGA Tour 2K23.
Xbox Cloud Gaming support for streaming partially owned games is reportedly coming soon
The feature is currently scheduled to be available to some users before the end of November 2024, as per the same source. The experimental version will reportedly be released first to members of the Xbox Insiders program, which anyone can sign up for for free. The full initial list of Xbox titles players will be able to stream as part of this beta is currently unclear. Citing sources familiar with the plans, The Verge claims that Microsoft's ultimate goal is to allow users to stream thousands of games they own.
Games you'll soon be able to stream via Xbox Cloud Gaming
- dredge
- dying light 2
- brightness
- High on life
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
- metro exodus
- PGA Tour 2K23 (Xbox One)
- Crew Motorfest (Xbox One)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Complete Edition)
This report is consistent with what Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said in February, when he promised that Xbox Cloud Gaming would begin streaming support for games it owns before the end of 2024. In doing so, the service will compete more directly with services like Boosteroid. And Nvidia's GeForce Now already lets users play (some) games they already own on other platforms via the cloud.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is currently an exclusive benefit of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. But once users are finally able to stream games they own, the service could become powerful enough on its own. Microsoft appears to be aware of this possibility, and recent reports suggest that the company is currently considering creating a cloud-only Xbox Game Pass tier.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft's flagship game subscription service, offering over 100 game titles to play with a single purchase, making it one of the best value propositions in the Xbox ecosystem to date.
