The future of cloud gaming is just playing out in a way no one predicted when it re-rose to prominence four years ago. Even if cloud gaming’s future is as a supplementary service on consoles, it’s sticking around as one of the central aspects of dissent against the acquisition. Because cloud gaming is a sticking point for the CMA, Microsoft wants to downplay its relevancy to Xbox’s business, but, as I wrote in April, it might be too late for them to do that. Xbox’s VP of Game Creator Experience, Sarah Bond, testified that the most common use for cloud gaming is not mobile play but console players trying out a game before or during a download.

Our strategy was to put consoles in our data centers to stream those consoles to a mobile phone, so if someone wanted to play Halo on a mobile phone, they would have access to those games through streaming. “There are many users around the world that have phones that aren’t able to play those games, nor will they be. “We built xCloud knowing that on Xbox we have many games that run on our console,” Head of Xbox Phil Spencer explained. Microsoft wins FTC case, removing Xbox’s biggest Activision Blizzard acquisition hurdleĥ features Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Season 3 needs to implementįTC files lawsuit to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition

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