Here Are The 172 Xbox Cloud Gaming Launch Games

5 responses to “Here Are The 172 Xbox Cloud Gaming Launch Games”

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   latincapn

   September 15, 2020 at 5:22 am

   Will this be available in Australia?

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      transientmind

      September 15, 2020 at 7:41 am

      Not yet. We’re on the list.

      I’ve read that as of February it was possible to load the xcloud app anyway, but it undergoes a latency test before allowing you to progress, and since the Australian Azure servers aren’t supporting xcloud yet, you won’t pass the test.

      We do have local Azure servers, they just need to support the service. No idea what goes into that decision.

      Could be that they want to offer the service nation-wide if they offer it at all, but they only have data centers along the south-east coast of the continent, which might mean they can’t really offer the service nationwide. Might be that we end up seeing a Perth data center go live first. Not sure what they’d do about the top end. I doubt there’s anywhere close to the demand needed to justify one there.

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         pablo77

         September 15, 2020 at 8:43 am

         Seeing as I’ve been seeing ‘PS Now coming to Australia’ since sometime in 2019, I’m not going to be holding my breath. That being said, MS does seem to have a lot more parity down here than Sony does…

         Fingers crossed it eventually does come here though..

         Now just have to convince my work to stop using apple products for all their company phones and tablets and move across to android..

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            transientmind

            September 15, 2020 at 9:05 am

            I mean, it’s difficult to overstate how Microsoft’s Azure platform is dominating cloud services in Australia. (Turns out, ‘if you build it, they will come.’) The Deloitte predictions were accurate and we are well and truly at a point of ‘everything-as-a-service‘ in the enterprise space. Especially since Azure lets government get in on the action without concerns over data leaving the country; no small win given that damn near 10% of the nation’s population is involved in the public sector.

            So yeah, integrating xcloud into that infrastructure is going to be a hell of a lot smoother for Microsoft just going between internal divisions than whatever horrifically expensive negotiation Sony is facing.

            I think the real question is how big a demand/return is there in cloud gaming to justify expanding the cloud infrastructure beyond the demands of government and enterprise. If it happens at all next year, we may very well just see a ‘South-East Australia only’ rollout. Unless some very clever people can figure out how to go nationwide without installing very expensive data centers in places that otherwise wouldn’t need them.

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               pablo77

               September 15, 2020 at 9:53 am

               I’m happy with South-East Australia – says the very selfish Melbournian..