It turns out that Microsoft wants to bring PC games to the Xbox cloud service. The plans were discovered in internal messaging obtained from the company’s litigation with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Microsoft allowed players to access games over the cloud with its service called Xbox Cloud Gaming. This feature, which can be used with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, was unfortunately not available in Turkey.
Internal emails revealed by The Verge today reveal that the tech giant is planning to bring PC games to its cloud service. The emails were obtained from a lawsuit between Microsoft and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the Activision acquisition.
Microsoft may move PC gaming to the cloud via Azure and rival GeForce Now
As we said at the beginning, Microsoft already enabled cloud gaming. However, Xbox Cloud Gaming servers, With Series X hardware it works. This ensures that the service is limited to Xbox games only. The documents are also from Microsoft, azure It shows that it wants to bring PC games to Xbox Cloud Gaming by taking advantage of its servers.
The emails, which include company CEO Satya Nadella, Xbox President Phil Spencer, and Kareem Choudry, head of the cloud gaming department, show that the idea is for the cloud gaming service that Google introduced in 2019. to Stadia showed that it appeared in response. Google will release Stadia at the beginning of 2023 because it could not deliver what was expected had closed.
On the other hand, it should be said that Microsoft has recently reduced its efforts on cloud services. The company said that Cloud Gaming will support all games until the end of 2022; but this did not happen. It was also revealed that there may be a special subscription to the cloud service. Nothing happened about this either.
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So it is not possible to say anything about moving PC games to the cloud right now. There is no official statement yet anyway. We will wait and see whether Microsoft will make such a move. However, if it happens, it is possible to say that the service will be a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s GeForce Now service.