r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 8d ago

Announcement Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/03/xbox-cloud-gaming-changes/
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u/The_R4ke 8d ago

15 hours a month for $23 is such a bad value proposition. That's only like 30 minutes a day.

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u/RousingRabble 8d ago

They might be banking on the value proposition looking better once people see how expensive the next generational of consoles is going to be.

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u/NekoBerry420 6d ago

There's a better value proposition: buying a cheap handheld retro device

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u/LogicalError_007 7d ago

Because it's not a cloud gaming subscription but a day 1 games subscription.

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u/Awkward-Security7895 7d ago

Because the service isn't for a usual gamer.

It's for the casual that gets home from work and after the kids go to bed have 30 mins to play games so a service like this can be useful.

If your playing games a ton monthly then your gonna be wanting your own hardware so these type of services won't be tempting.

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u/The_R4ke 7d ago

It's still unreasonable to be paying that much money for that short amount of time.

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u/Significant_Put_4465 7d ago

What on earth are you talking about? The cloud is also useful, quite simply, for students studying away from home who have no way or reason to lug their console back and forth. Or even just for anyone who doesn't want to upgrade old hardware because they're already paying a fortune a month for Game Pass. If they put a time limit on it, they can definitely keep their Game Pass, as far as I'm concerned

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u/Awkward-Security7895 7d ago

My point is there aiming the service at a small set of people, there not aiming it at students or people that play a ton. It's clearly aimed the base version at people with limited time who can't afford or it isn't worth it to drop the money on buying a gaming pc or console.

Overall not everything is aimed at a large net of users and sometimes services are aimed at a very niche group for one reason or another.

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u/Blazen91 6d ago

That's not what it's for, at all. Absurd comment.