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@CutchuSlow Basically I have found that if you find a game that you have in your Xbox library and then select that you own the game and instead of clicking - connect now - skip that and it will get you to log in via Microsoft and will then take you to the game.

The performance is way better than Xcloud BUT it is all very fiddly. It certainly doesn’t work from the Xbox store.

@MjJmediablogger Sorted. It’s an extra expense but it makes cloud gaming worth it. Xcloud is poor but through Nvidia it’s how it should be.

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I keep getting this. @liam_doolan

I’m not getting this. Still just giving me Xcloud only

I have been playing this. It’s really good. Great fun. Good challenges as well. Cant wait to see how this one grows. Deffo worth a try if , like me, you love Karting games.

@RetroMan71 It’s great to pick up and play and has plenty for everyone. They are working on bringing more games and also updating the user interface.

This is a superb service and games keep coming. The challenges are cool although some are crazy hard, and it’s good value. They are working on improving the service all the time and it’s worth it if you love retro gaming and high score challenges!

Another big hitter that seems to have come out average. Xbox keep on destroying the brand each day right now. Depressing.
Not an Xbox studios game I know but another Game Pass game that looks like its a flop.

Xbox need to up the game if they want to put so much into xCloud because right now it’s bang average.

This again shows why Xbox are going after a different future. I don’t think that they will stop altogether with hardware, but will make less of it as they know it isn’t doing to sell in hundreds of millions anymore.

I’d like to see the next Xbox be hybrid. Powerful PC type with handheld module that can play games natively . But that would be very costly to the consumer.

The numbers are impressive though. That’s a hell of a lot of players but I guess the question from this is whether all those players are helping with revenue and I guess that could either be a lot or very little at all.

@FraserG excellent. Love that controller! Cheers mate, much appreciated.

Beauty! Not available in UK?

@TheSimulator I thought by now that Xcloud would be so much better than it is. Xbox have never improved it, it’s just not good enough. If this is the way Xbox is going - ie. cloud gaming- they need to up the game considerably or they will lose that battle as well.

I’m bewildered as to what Xbox is doing tbh.

Xcloud is nowhere near good enough. On a 55 inch TV, the image is grainy and input lag is not good. With the servers that Microsoft could use, it’s mad that even Stadia was better. Amazon Luna runs better.
It’s not acceptable at all and should be fixed.

I’m diving into some more of Stampede. Cracking game and the courses so far are great fun. Graphically reminds me of Splatoon. Got a very Nintendo feel to it and that’s all good!
@fraserg

It seems clear to me that Xbox have got themselves in a right muddle over everything right now. A handheld rumoured, a new more powerful than ever console?
Sticking a huge finger up at Xbox console Game Pass subscribers. Possibly ending Xbox hardware in Europe.
Game Pass subs up in prices and day one releases / the big sellers for Game Pass not available to everyone.

Just what is Xbox today? Does Xbox even know?

From day to day they just lurch from one confusion to another.

Also, the Activison Blizzard deal will take time to come through - yes they can say sales are up based on the companies they have taken over, but they need to make 69 billion just to start breaking even on the deal.

I feel that the heads at Microsoft and those at Xbox have become totally detached. It’s feels like the retina has become detached from the eye and now it’s a case of the blind leading the blind.

Xbox fans deserve better.

Microsoft’s PR and marketing teams are useless. They release statements and information that are so muddy and at times, contradictory.

They are alienating too many gamers.

This was exactly what I was asking about recently @fraserg
Hopefully it’s not true although to be fair, Xbox marketing in the UK is already dead - I can’t recall the last advert I saw on TV in the last few years that was specifically Xbox related.

It’s really sad to see and looks like the beginning of the end of Xbox in Europe regarding consoles. It’s clearly going all cloud based.

The purchase of Activison is starting to look like a millstone round the neck, rather than a good move right now.

I wonder if this could all potentially mean that the next Xbox hardware won’t even be available to buy unless it’s via import.

Time will tell but this does feel like more sad news for UK Xbox gamers.

No issues at all. I play more games now than I ever have. All thanks to #GamePass. It’s part of my phone contract anyway so i don’t really notice it that much.
They are just giving more options.

As usual, we have to have some with hysterical reactions.

Is it possible that Xbox might drop it all together in Europe @FraserG ? Marketing is non existent here now.

Interesting that Amazon have gone for this when they have not long launched Amazon Luna in the UK. This literally kills Luna dead in the water!
I’m not complaining as more people on Xbox is great news. @kezelpaso is there any updates on playing owned games at all?

It would be really easy to say it’s all doom and gloom because of poor hardware sales but the fact is that Xbox is different now. Games on different consoles. Incredible games. Now on Amazon as well. More hardware to come. Xbox isn’t dying, it’s just growing in a very different way and I’m excited for the future. The best way to play Xbox games is on Xbox and always will be.

More and more players are going to be playing Xbox games and that in turns means that the future is bright….the future is bright Green!

Enjoy.

Another sensible move. PlayStation may sell the hardware but Xbox is selling games and is everywhere. It might not be what everyone wants but if anyone thinks Xbox is dying, they are so wrong.

People keep moaning about lack of games or what’s next for Xbox hardware but when they get a plethora of great games shown to them….. yep.. they still moan!!!

Just enjoy the games people! Gaming is about the games. The rest , we have no control over.

I am not sure how anyone can call the showcase a ‘let down’ or a ‘disappointment’.
We constantly hear about there being not enough games or not enough quality and then when we get what was a stunning showcase of quality games, people are still not happy!!

Of course, we all want to know what the future holds for Xbox in terms of hardware and exclusives but to be honest, we cannot control that. We will be told when we are told. It’s pointless worrying about it right now.

Just enjoy the incredible games that are coming to Xbox this year and next!

The rest will look after itself.

It is time that gamers stopped moaning and actually just got on with playing games!!!

Compared to PS remote play and streaming, Xcloud is so poor. It’s like playing AAA games on a Switch

They 100% are going to stop consoles. I suspect the next hardware will just be a streaming device that they will leave open to updates but I don’t think it will be the leap we keep hearing about.

Xbox have totally made a mess of this generation and for all Spencer keeps blaming others, this is about poor marketing from the off and a a total lack of leadership.

@datamonkey ahaha! 🤣

Phil Spencer isn’t a leader. Leaders don’t hunker down in bunkers when this stuff is going on. They come out and talk to the rightly concerned fans .

He is clearly not in any form of control and tbh has always been a man full of bluster and nonsense. Reminds me of Boris Johnson. Full of wind and no substance .

She used a lot of words but actually said noting but drivel. The trouble with Xbox now is that no one is going to believe a word that comes out of the mouths of Spencer , Bond and Booty ever again.
All 3 may as well be given the boot - they command crazy salaries so get rid of those - and just get on with calling it Microsoft gaming.

All they are doing now is putting off the inevitable. And each day that goes by , the damage gets worse.

Spencer, Bond snd Booty are being punished for their abysmal mistakes and handling of Xbox this generation. And rightly so.

She’s said this before but tbh I don’t believe Xbox half the time. What they say and do and 2 totally different things

Matt Booty is talking absolute nonsense. They want smaller games but have closed studios that can do just that.

This is yet another example of Xbox execs just taking the utter p133 out of gamers.

Lies , lies and more lies. They’ve spent so much time lying I don’t think they can actually tell the difference anymore.

How nice of them. Clueless. Xbox have become an abhorrent mess

@somnambulance Microsoft gaming, Xbox or Spencer Corps will churn out games like a meat slicer but don’t expect the focus to be on quality. They are now going all in on quick bucks.

They simply do not care any longer.

Today has pretty much ended my relationship with Xbox and it is clear that many are doing the same. Xbox has failed to communicate with its fans. Xbox has bought the likes of Bethesda/Activision/Blizzard, not to make games but to ensure mass profits. It’s a bizarre way to go about what is essentially figure fudging.

Phil Spencer’s ego has grown so big that I’m surprised we can even the shelf behind him these days.

Neither he, no Sarah Bond, nor Matt Booty have any care for Xbox gamers.

I also suspect that they are also no longer in any sort of control and are merely just the puppets being controlled from above.

Microsoft gaming will make billions from gaming but not through its own hard work.

As for Xbox hardware - they may as well throw the towel in now. They have failed Xbox gamers. But they simply no longer care.

TBH Xbox could release the most powerful handheld in the world and it wouldn’t sell anywhere near enough units. Again. Xbox cocked it right up with Xbox One but with the Series X/S they have not marketed it, they have not even tried to make up any ground and they have now proved that the only reason that they were buying companies was just to stops others getting them.
Slowly, one by one, they are now closing studios as if it’s some sort of game - pun not intended.

My relationship with Xbox is coming to a close. They have shafted every Xbox fan and they do not care.

I can’t carry on with Xbox anymore. I have tried to defend and make sense of their decisions but I just can’t anymore. They are literally the utter sc*m of the gaming industry.
Bond, Booty and Spencer should be collecting P45’s not bonuses.

Utterly disgusting behaviour.

Picking this up on pay day! Love this kind of game and played at a mates and loved it! Not perfect but bloody great fun!

I genuinely could not care a t033!!

Live the game on Xbox. And that’s the way it will stay for me.

NEXT!

Okay so this is cool

Playing Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. Been in my backlog for way too long and loving it. Funny , great fun. Madcap.

Absolute belter of a game.

It was a crazy long saga and Jim Ryan wanted to eke it out for as long as he could. He got his deal and then off he popped.

Xbox are putting games in as many places as possible. It’s good for gamers. Anyone who doesn’t see that is deluded.

@Dimey Totally this. They don’t market so nothing sells. Their marketing teams must have the easiest job on the planet. Literally do nothing, at all. Ever. Madness

But what does that even mean. If they still fail to market it - in the UK, I cannot remember seeing an advert on TV for the Series X/S at all in 4 years!
Will it be such a leap that makes it harder for devs to make cross platform games?

She is saying this in an almost desperate bid to build up rumours and interest but surely it’s too soon. Unless that next gen hardware is coming in 2025.

I wish Xbox would stop taking in riddles and just cut to the chase.

@Sifi They don’t need to. It’s pretty obvious.

How will this work with an all digital Xbox future? Will its just be digital gaming that is preserved?

Seeing so many people moaning about 30FPS and they haven’t even played the game! For a game like this, even at 30FPS I would expect it to still run beautifully. But then I’ve not played it either!
People need to chill on the FPS and it only needs to be an issue if it actually affects the game and from early previews, it sounds like it doesn’t.

Will be interesting to see if we get a GOTY contender or if the Xbox Tax will hit hard again?

Hopefully it’s the former. Xbox is due some good fortune surely.

@FraserG I buy it in the UK. Also sold in Australia