Xbox Game Pass seems to be everywhere. Your console, your PC, your mobile, probably even the kitchen sink. Joining the roster of seemingly everything, it now appears official Xbox Game Pass support for Android TVs could be arriving relatively soon.
The report comes from 9to5Google, which claims a dive into the recent 2107 update for the Xbox Game Pass for Android app "starts the path for official Android TV support" by enabling access to Game Pass from the Android TV and Google TV homescreen. While nothing has been said about official support as of yet, it seems Microsoft is laying the foundations to formally bring Xbox Game Pass to Android TV.
As clarified by 9to5Google, it has been possible to sideload the Xbox Game Pass application onto an Android TV through external software until now, but the site reports high latency issues that make it pretty pointless to try out.
Xbox Game Pass for Android launched last year and has proved extremely successful. It's continuously grown since then, with the team improving latency issues and ironing out other features. Microsoft plans to go even further in the future with Cloud Gaming sticks for TV. These dongles will allow users to stream games straight to their TV, and it all sounds really cool.
It's great to see so many options for players. The more the merrier in our opinion, as more Xbox games are opened up to a wider range of people to dive in and try out.
Will you benefit from Xbox Game Pass coming to Android TV? Let us know in the comments below.
[source 9to5google.com]
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Roku better be next
Roku soon after, or even better-make their own.
It's scary to think of the potential user base this opens the service up to.
Heads up
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AWESOME news, will def factor that in when I buy new tv's in November! Xbox making all the right moves!
Absolutely bonkers. Xbox making moves that would have exploded my head as a child and saved my parents a lot of headaches. Kudos for the ingenuity.
Oof, Stadia taking another L....
And so it begins...full gamepass integration, soon we will have it uploaded into our very minds. =)
@SplooshDmg How things change... I wonder what's the narrative of Push Square and Sony die-hard fans now that Sony's games are coming to Windows and the We believe in generations next-gen games have become cross-gen...?
@gollumb82 That makes sense, I mean, Jim selling hot dogs 😂.
The delayed games is because of what you said, likely. Nintendo needed a full year (Wii U and Switch have completely different architecture) to port Breath of the Wild to Switch as explained in one of the Iwata Asks. I guess it's faster between PS4 and PS5 that share a common architecture.
@gollumb82 @SplooshDmg I just found this:
https://in-ign-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/in.ign.com/ps5/163587/news/ps4-games-pc-sony-nixxes?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=16276987905412&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fin.ign.com%2Fps5%2F163587%2Fnews%2Fps4-games-pc-sony-nixxes
@gollumb82 It's a 180° turn. The Windows ports, the cross-gen games and the Xbox-shaped controller. Nothing wrong about it if it wasn't for the fact that Sony said "We believe in generations and games that are exclusively built for PS5" and scorned Series X/S not long ago.
@gollumb82 My PS4 sounds like a jet engine and the heat warms up the room. My gaming backlog is huge so I don't mind waiting for the odd Sony game that I want to play to come to Windows. I'm honestly happy that I didn't buy a PS5. When Xbox One and PS4 launched, the PS4 was more attractive a priori because it was cheaper, smaller and had the power unit built in so I bought a PS4 before an Xbox One but now it's exactly the opposite, everything about Series X is more attractive than PS5.
@SplooshDmg 🤣
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