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Microsoft revealed Monday that it's testing an Xbox game streaming service, currently called Project xCloud.
The company demonstrated its work on the service so far in a video showing Forza and Halo, games designed to be run on an Xbox One console, being played on Android phones and tablets. The games work both with an Xbox wireless controller paired over Bluetooth and using a touchscreen overlay when there's no controller present.
"Project xCloud's state-of-the-art global game-streaming technology will offer you the freedom to play on the device you want without being locked to a particular device," wrote Kareem Choudhry, Microsoft's corporate vice president for cloud gaming, in a blog post.
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This line is key... In order to play games on a phone sized screen this would REQUIRE re-working by game developers... there is simply no possible way that many of the required details found on small screens could be usable by people without reworking by developers. But no additional work required by developers screams that there will be a "normal" sized gaming screen for X-Box games... which is definitely much larger than a phone screen.
"Our vision is for gamers to have access to the same content via game streaming that they do on other platforms, without any additional work required by the game developer," the spokesperson said.
This line is key... In order to play games on a phone sized screen this would REQUIRE re-working by game developers... there is simply no possible way that many of the required details found on small screens could be usable by people without reworking by developers. But no additional work required by developers screams that there will be a "normal" sized gaming screen for X-Box games... which is definitely much larger than a phone screen.
"Our vision is for gamers to have access to the same content via game streaming that they do on other platforms, without any additional work required by the game developer," the spokesperson said.
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