The future of video games for Microsoft has a name

The physical game has been at the forward for a while. And no, we're not just talking about going to the store and buying the game in its case, but even consoles and computers as physical platforms, it seems that their days are numbered. It won't be today or tomorrow, but everything seems to indicate that the future will go that way.

Gone are those Super Nintendo or Mega Drive games whose case and booklet were a masterpiece of design. A whole shopping experience. The same as going to the store and getting the console you want or building a gaming PC component by component.Companies want us to play via streaming and Microsoft is the last to show its cards on the table

Game Streaming

Project xCloud is the name of the proposal that the Redmond team is working on to bring games in streaming format home. No consoles or computers. With this system, any platform would be valid to access the titles posted in the cloud.

Let's imagine we can be playing a game of Forza Horizon 4 directly without an Xbox One or a PC nearby That's Project xCloud, a project still in an early stage of development, but a project that marks the path in which the industry could circulate in the coming years. In this proposal, all the power to move the title resides in Microsoft servers.

Project xCloud bases its use on the use of the power of Azure and that is where the key lies so as not to have to accumulate everything the potential for the development of the game in the destination support.That would make it possible, for example, for us to be able to play a next-generation title on a smartphone with iOS or Android, to give just one example.

A kind of portable and virtual console always available that would also arrive accompanied by hardware specially created for the occasion. The project will use the power of Azure to perform the necessary computing so that regardless of the device we have, we can enjoy our games.

Play the games we want, when and with whom we want and using whatever compatible device we have at hand. A service currently being tested internally and will open a beta next year to be accessible to more users.

To be able to take advantage of it, from the company they work on a tactile interface for all those who want to play without controls but also on a custom controller based on an Xbox One controller for use with those titles and other devices.

The problem may be caused by the gaming experience, although from Microsoft they assure that thanks to the large number of data centers they have there will be almost no latencyMicrosoft affirms that it will be possible to play through 4G networks and even through future 5G connections and so that there are no problems they have been in charge of creating their own specialized hardware for data centers, with a blade server that has components from Xbox One consoles.

By means of a monthly subscription we will be able to access top quality titles on platforms such as Smart TV, mobile phones, tablets, PCs... and we will only need to have a connection to decent Internet And this may be the bottleneck that many users face who still do not have access in their homes to adequate networks and where the ADSL of 10 megabytes for download and 1 megabyte for upload still present.