Stuart360
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Now i'm not stupid, streaming is the future, the long term future. Anyone thinking we will still be gaming ona console 30 years from now, well its a day dream (although who know what Nintendo will do as they are dettached from reality).
Anyway i recently upgraded my Fibre to 500mb, and i got 6 months of Gamepass Ultimate with the upgrade. This is my feelings.
The Good -
Being able to just click on a game, and within a few seconds you are in said game, well its weird, and pretty awesome i'm not going to lie.
The fact that as a PC gamer, i'm now able to play a selection of 360 and orig Xbox games is also pretty trippy, and i didnt even realize that was the case with XCloud on PC,.
Latency, now this REALLY surprised me. I could not feel any latency, everything i presssed seemed instant. Now compared to PSNow that i tried for a month when it launched on PC, well you could lterally see the delay between button presses and what you see on screen. XCloud, at least for me, is instant.
The Bad-
Although image quality looks surprsingly good (almost native at times), the image can break up often, which makes the image suddenly look like a Youtube vid. Now i know part of that depends on internet conncection, but i'm pretty sure 500mb Fibre is enough lol.
Framerate in games. Games seem to come with 30fps and 60fps options. 30fps works great, but the 60fps options seem to have a lot of slowdown at times, and i dont mean internet related slowdown, it can slowdown when something complex is on screen, and you can look away and look back again and the framerate will drop. Thats somehting i didnt expect when using streaming as obviously you are not running the game natively on your hardware lol.
Sometimes a game will freeze for a split second, or even lose connection. Again something i didnt expect with 500mb Fibre.
All in all XCLoud was a mixed bag for me. Good in some sense, bad in others.
The real kicker for me is when image quality drops and it looks like you are watching a Youtube vid, it just breaks the immersion completely.
Anyway trying XCloud hasnt converted me. The conveniance of it is unparelled, but some things are more important than conveniance, at least for me.
Streaming will improve as the years go by obviously, but for now gaming native is the only option for me.
Oh and just to stop the inevitable 'No wonder Gamepass is doing so well, Microsft are giving it away lolz' posts. This is nothing to do with Microsft, its my internet provider (BT) pays £10 a month and buys a month of Ultimnate and credits it to your account. Even on your BT statement you see a charge of £10, then underneath a refund of £10.
Anyway i recently upgraded my Fibre to 500mb, and i got 6 months of Gamepass Ultimate with the upgrade. This is my feelings.
The Good -
Being able to just click on a game, and within a few seconds you are in said game, well its weird, and pretty awesome i'm not going to lie.
The fact that as a PC gamer, i'm now able to play a selection of 360 and orig Xbox games is also pretty trippy, and i didnt even realize that was the case with XCloud on PC,.
Latency, now this REALLY surprised me. I could not feel any latency, everything i presssed seemed instant. Now compared to PSNow that i tried for a month when it launched on PC, well you could lterally see the delay between button presses and what you see on screen. XCloud, at least for me, is instant.
The Bad-
Although image quality looks surprsingly good (almost native at times), the image can break up often, which makes the image suddenly look like a Youtube vid. Now i know part of that depends on internet conncection, but i'm pretty sure 500mb Fibre is enough lol.
Framerate in games. Games seem to come with 30fps and 60fps options. 30fps works great, but the 60fps options seem to have a lot of slowdown at times, and i dont mean internet related slowdown, it can slowdown when something complex is on screen, and you can look away and look back again and the framerate will drop. Thats somehting i didnt expect when using streaming as obviously you are not running the game natively on your hardware lol.
Sometimes a game will freeze for a split second, or even lose connection. Again something i didnt expect with 500mb Fibre.
All in all XCLoud was a mixed bag for me. Good in some sense, bad in others.
The real kicker for me is when image quality drops and it looks like you are watching a Youtube vid, it just breaks the immersion completely.
Anyway trying XCloud hasnt converted me. The conveniance of it is unparelled, but some things are more important than conveniance, at least for me.
Streaming will improve as the years go by obviously, but for now gaming native is the only option for me.
Oh and just to stop the inevitable 'No wonder Gamepass is doing so well, Microsft are giving it away lolz' posts. This is nothing to do with Microsft, its my internet provider (BT) pays £10 a month and buys a month of Ultimnate and credits it to your account. Even on your BT statement you see a charge of £10, then underneath a refund of £10.
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