Microsoft is planning to let you keep Xbox One with you even in 2022. The company seems to deal with developers to make powerful hardware for their cloud streaming services for the coming year.
The Announcements
In a native Xbox Wire blog post, Microsoft said that some exclusive sets are there for 2022, require the power of Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and not to mention the eight-year-old Xbox One as well.
Apart from that, Microsoft mentioned that Xbox Cloud Gaming will bring the Flight Simulator, to be specific to Xbox One. Besides, Bethesda’s Starfield, Arkane’s Redfall, and GSC game World’s Stalker 2 are included on the same list as well.
“For the millions of people who play on Xbox One consoles today, we are looking forward to sharing more about how we will bring many of these next-gen games, such as Microsoft Flight Simulator”
– Editor-in-Chief, Xbox
Such an initiative of Microsoft, according to the quote, has extended the service of Xbox One for a couple of years more as a cloud gaming platform.
“Over one billion people in 26 countries across five continents will be able to play from the cloud on the world’s most powerful console, across apps and browsers on their phones, tablets, PCs, and Xboxes,”
– CVP of Cloud Gaming, Xbox
More about Cloud Gaming
Xbox Cloud Gaming, well known as Project xCloud is a well-competitive concept from Microsoft that has been available since last September. The concept focused on gaming on your phone or a browser.
This is an effective way to make Xbox One efficient for few more years as Microsoft is upgrading the server blades soon in July to provide better support to the Cloud gamers with load times and frame rates for all consoles.
Few things to Keep in Mind
The thing is, you have control over certain things when it comes to cloud gaming. Like, you can decide to have a wired or wireless connection and internet speed.
As you will be playing on a cloud server, strong connectivity is as important as your console and Xbox One will do good according to Microsoft. However, some games might show exceptions like Halo: Reach didn’t show quite a good performance with xCloud.
Wrapping Up
If you own Xbox One, you should give it a try before retiring your console. If works well, keep it alongside the new ones. Or else get something better. Either way, xCloud is going to be awesome over time. Stay tuned for more Xbox One update that gets next-gen games via xCloud.