When’s Nintendo and Sony joining the apple cloud gaming party 🤔
All crap games on Xbox.
All crap games on Xbox.
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cloud gaming is not console gaming. The cloud gaming experience is going to be way more variable between users because now your inputs to the machine and the graphic signal to your screen first have to travel over the internet. And that not only automatically adds extra delay, but is subject to the whims of your local network/internet connection to the server at that time.
so one guy can say it works great and the next guy can say no it doesn't and both be right.
And the guy who says it works great, might change his mind a few hours later. And vice versa.
Nevermind each person will have a different tolerance for the same delays and hiccups inherent with cloud gaming.
You could, but it seems kind of silly to do that IMO if you already have an Apple TV that is dedicated to sitting plugged in your TV anyways.
so that when someone is deciding between an iphone and an android, they choose iphoen because it has the cool games on it.
hopefully it doesn’t drain the heck out of the battery.Nice timing, my MBA just arrived today.
New users can get a three month free trial for $1.
This is the perfect example of how people blindly repeat sayings/ phrases and never stop to think what it means. Three months for $1 is heavily reduced not FREE.
better gpu/performance would not matter for cloud gaming.
MMORPG games like Runescape function like this already. The only thing your PC/Mac processes locally are the "enhanced" 720p, 1080p, 2K and 4K graphics. However, that processing depends on your connection stability which feeds your GPU what to display from the browser applet.
That said, as to the original post. This is how you compete vs Apple on games. One company doesn't need to subsidize another's infrastructure.
The fact that this even works on the iPhone at all via the web just goes to show how onerous Apple’s terms are. This could’ve been a native app (and seamless for users) and both companies could’ve profited. Now Microsoft has done all the backend work (including payment processing) and Apple doesn’t get a cut.
Nobody is saying it should be free. Apple is straight-up not allowing it in the store (unless they publish each individual game which makes 0 sense).
“New users can get a three month free trial for $1.“
if it’s $1 is not free!
if it’s $1 is not free!
So that they get your credit card number. Then, when you forget to cancel, they have the means to start charging you the $15/month.
It matters for decoding the video signal and when connected to an external display, I was talking about connecting your iOS device to a TV, so to achieve 60fps you need a recent usb-c iPad, etc.
you mean, Microsoft could have done this from the beginning instead of intentionally getting rejected on the app store to win social brownie points?
Timmy must be pissed. Much better value than the arcads.
Was in the closed beta. It’s a great experience if you consider what’s actually happening behind the scenes.
really looking forward to the tech evolving I’ve the next 1-5 years.
and keep in mind, it’s still in beta and it’s this good already.
really looking forward to the tech evolving I’ve the next 1-5 years.
and keep in mind, it’s still in beta and it’s this good already.
I’m impressed with the service for what it is, and could be. But it’s still too sluggish even on a fast low latency connection.
it would be ok for Turn based games I guess.
it would be ok for Turn based games I guess.
oh ok. yeah if the port can't output 60 hz at said resolution then you wouldn't get a true 60 fps.
it's a dead end type of setup though. I mean might as well just get a cheap chromecast/googleTV etc if you're hooking your iPad to the tv. OR so it seems to me.
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I Wish Apple would just play ball and allow them to make a dedicated app. It’s not like they compete at all in the gaming space.
the thing is the tech isn't going to evolve anytime soon because the bottleneck is the path from your home over the internet to the server and back.
Maybe, in the next 10-20 years, the internet overall could have a much lower latency on average. But not going to happen anytime soon overall.
Probably to grab the CC info in the first place, without the user getting weirded out that one is needed for a “free trial”. Pretty genius, actually, if you ask me.
Agree. Along the same line, if one owns a recent smart tv as I do, the goal should be to have an official xCloud app for your smart tv, with you controller hooked to your tv's bluetooth, etc. thus avoiding input lag and unneeded external devices or hops, as even the chromecast, apple tv, etc are just relaying the video to the screen without much processing anyways...
My TV (Samsung), recognizes my DualShock controllers, but there's no xCloud app in sight just yet...