Just over a year on from when Discord itself started to rollout to Xbox Insiders, members of Microsoft's preview program are beginning to test out a brand-new feature. Starting today, Xbox Insiders can stream gameplay directly to their friends on Discord, and it all looks nicely integrated into the Xbox guide.
Once you're into a Discord voice channel on your console (video explaining that up above), you can simply hit 'stream your game' to start beaming gameplay directly to a pal, or a group of mates of course. Just like Xbox's newly-announced Game Pass Core testing, this Discord feature is limited to Xbox Insider 'Alpha Ring and Alpha Skip-Ahead' users for now.
This writer ain't a massive Discord user, at least not yet, but this sounds like a pretty nice feature to be honest. Microsoft says it's a "highly requested" one too, so, hopefully Xbox users will make good use of it!
There's no timeline for a full rollout of this feature to all Xbox players right now, but given it starts today for those Xbox Insider rings we mentioned, we wouldn't expect it to take too long for the game streaming option to become available to all.
Will you be making use of this Discord feature when it's available to you? Let us know in the chat channel down below!
[source news.xbox.com]
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Hallelujah! Getting sick of Twitch’s need to make every single stream public, when all I want to do is stream in private to my brother (and vice versa) from time to time.
Thank goodness this is optional.
I want Discord nowhere near my Xbox. Bad enough I have to use it on PC since everyone quit using Skype, TeamSpeak, etc.
I mainly only use discord when I play Dungeon and Dragons and that only because 2 of my players are in a different state then me.
Removed - unconstructive
Now if it ends up being possible to stream via YouTube that would be the cherry on top but I imagine some kind of conflict has happened in the past between the two.
HELL YEAH! (No, nice pop up, I've got nothing more to say.)
continuing to improve the console experience. Keep it up team xbox.
@BeerIsAwesome It doesn’t, which is why this is a handy feature to have!
What’s with these slow rollouts? I still haven’t gotten the new dashboard yet…
The only quirk this has is that you can't literally stream to your closest friends, unless you let them know in advance what Discord server you're doing it on.
Discord might have made Activities able to be done on private messages, but I don't see how you can set this up on a person to person message.
I tried discord once, I couldn't figure out how to use it.
Same with instantgram and snap chat.
Oooooh this is awesome!
Ok this looks fun. I wonder what the lag will be like?
One thing I loved about Mixer (remember that) is that there was pretty much zero lag so you could stream to friends and chat at the same time without them seeing a delay in gameplay.
This is going sound incredibly stupid on my part. But I never use Discord. One because it's just so cumbersome. But my main reason is the name. Discord. The word itself is negative connotation by definition.
But can you allow others to control the game? When they shut down Mixer, sharing a controller with viewers on Xbox AND PC was a sorely missed feature...
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