Things are starting to feel crowded as more and more companies try to pitch their \u201cNetflix for games\u201d cloud-based streaming services, but Microsoft says the experience it\u2019s gained through its Xbox branch gives it a potential leg up on the competition.<\/p>\n
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to Business Insider<\/a> and other publications earlier this week on the subject of the game streaming service, Project xCloud, the company announced late last year, saying that both its Xbox dealings and its growing list of Microsoft-owned and published games put\u00a0the project in\u00a0a strong position.<\/p>\n “We have a structural position in that we have both a console business as well as a PC business, which happens to be bigger than the console business when it comes to gaming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n As mentioned by Business Insider, Nadella also called out its experience with Xbox Live and the company\u2019s history of synergy between its Windows and Xbox video game branches through things like its Xbox Play Anywhere program. \u201cWe have as much a shot to build a subscription service as anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s Project xCloud<\/a> aims to, like many others in the cloud-based game service space, let people play video games on demand from a variety of platforms while the actual game is being hosted on a remote machine. The goal is to launch the service with the capability to stream games on 4G networks, ideally opening PC and Xbox One-only games up to players that primarily use mobile phones to play games.\u00a0<\/p>\n Other companies have dabbled in the same kinds of projects, with Google notably testing its\u00a0Project Stream<\/a> service that can stream triple-A games like Assassin\u2019s Creed: Odyssey<\/em> through a Google Chrome browser window. Verizon<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> are also rumored to have their own game streaming services in the works, though official details on both are still scarce.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things are starting to feel crowded as more and more companies try to pitch their \u201cNetflix for games\u201d cloud-based streaming services, but Microsoft says the experience it\u2019s gained through its Xbox branch gives it a potential leg up on the competition. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to Business Insider and other publications earlier this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}