The hardware at launch used Xbox One S-based blade servers, but began to transition to Xbox Series X-based servers in June 2021. Microsoft said that its Xbox content library will make its service more appealing than competitors such as Stadia.

It entered public testing later in the year and was unveiled at E3 2019. The service entered its home testing phase in May 2019, when it could be used outside the lab environment. Xbox head Phil Spencer used a private server during this time to test games on a remote connection. They demonstrated the service in March 2019 with the racing game Forza Horizon 4 playing on an Android smartphone with an Xbox One controller. Microsoft teased the service at E3 2018 and formally announced Project xCloud several months later, in October 2018. The technology was deemed successful enough at around the time of Xbox Game Pass's introduction that Microsoft assembled a larger team to build up the cloud gaming platform. As his team developed this solution, Choudhry also had the idea if they could provide these games without having need of a console, and got Spencer's go-ahead to start a small team to determine the feasibility of cloud gaming. The ideas for the cloud service came within Microsoft around 2016, around the same time that Kareem Choudhry developed the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility for the Xbox One.

Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming is provided to subscribers of Ultimate at no additional cost. Initially released in beta testing in November 2019, the service later launched for subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on September 15, 2020. Xbox Cloud Gaming (formerly known as Project xCloud and colloquially known as xCloud ) is Microsoft's Xbox cloud gaming service. ( November 2020)ġ.0 / November 14, 2019 3 years ago ( )Īndroid, Windows, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Steam Deck, ChromeOS, and select Samsung Smart TVs and Smart Monitors Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.

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