Wow, what a week it has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of Xbox as a community. And Now Team Xbox have another magic trick up there sleeves as they take another step towards the mission of bringing gaming to more people where and when they want to play.
You can play Game Pass games from the cloud on your Xbox console. We’re excited that Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) is now available on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. launching in 25 regions with Brazil coming soon. This capability will initially roll out with the November release to a subset of Xbox gamers and scale to all gamers in supported markets over the coming weeks.
Team Xbox know that you want to find and try Xbox Game Pass games before you install them — and they have just enabled that. Now you can discover and try lots of different titles quickly right from the cloud until you land on the one you may want to also install — which is still the flagship experience for Xbox consoles. In addition to that, getting a game invite from a friend for a game you haven’t downloaded yet is no longer going to stop you from joining right away! Xbox have built it so the experience is fast, easy, and a great way to discover your next favorite game while saving space on your hard drive for the games you plan to play again and again.
For Xbox One users, cloud gaming also allows you to play some next gen games on the Xbox One console you already own. This means select games that are currently only playable on Xbox Series X|S, like Recompile, The Medium, and The Riftbreaker, are now playable on your Xbox One with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and cloud gaming. Team Xbox will also continue to support this capability and expand the cloud game library to include more next gen games like Microsoft Flight Simulator in early 2022.
So, boot up your console, look for the cloud icon, and jump into your next favorite game.
This journey to bring Cloud Gaming to more than a billion devices has been a true community effort. Xbox simply wouldn’t be here today without this partnership, thank you.