In November 2020, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealed that you’ll likely be able to stream Xbox games to your TV “in the next twelve months.” And in June 2021, the company confirmed that it would soon offer both a smart TV app And Xbox stream key to succeed.
But it’s been 11 months since “soon” and 17 months since Spencer suggested it would take 12 months. And now, Monday VentureBeatIt is Jeff Group and the edgeby Tom Warren A sign that the wait is not over yet.
Now Grubb says we can expect an Xbox Puck “in the next 12 months,” which I remind you is the same phrase Spencer said 17 months ago, alongside the words, “I think nothing is going to stop us from doing that.” (I’ll also remind you that Microsoft had already developed a similar product in the last decade but it was canceled before its scheduled debut at E3 2016.)
But my colleague Tom – a guy who doesn’t quite understand the meaning of the word “vacation” – and Sunset have good reason to believe Microsoft is serious this time around. Both are named in the process of scrapping the so-called “Xbox Everywhere” initiative within Microsoft, and point to how Microsoft has just done It is an electronic game Free to play on any iPhone, Android or PC as a sign that the initiative has legs.
Xbox Everywhere includes hardware like a TV disc for Xbox Cloud games, TV apps, and even Microsoft’s original plan to let you play all the Xbox games you own through the cloud
—Tom Warren May 5 2022
we are in the edge, I caused a lot of ink to flow by writing how good Microsoft is with cloud gaming and how the Xbox Game Pass subscription service works he is The real Xbox for the next generation, especially now that it has bought Activision Blizzard to become one of the largest video game companies in the world.
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Cloud gaming still has a lot to prove, but when you can just put a console on a phone and call it a portable Xbox or so and load it onto a device like Steam Deck, it’s hard not to see the potential.