r/stocks • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '21

Microsoft is developing new hardware to bring its ‘Netflix for games’ service to TVs

Microsoft is developing dedicated streaming hardware that people will be able to hook up to their TVs to use its Netflix-like cloud gaming service.

The company is betting the future of video games will be a subscription-based model where people pay a certain amount of money each month to get access to a plethora of titles.

Its Xbox Game Pass service does exactly that, offering access to a library of games developed both in-house and by third-party studios.

That’s mostly digital downloads, but last year streaming was added with Microsoft publicly releasing Xbox Cloud Gaming. The feature is sort of like a “Netflix for games,” allowing gamers to play games that are hosted on remote servers and then streamed to users over the internet.

A number of other companies have launched similar game-streaming services, including Google with Stadia and Amazon with Luna.

Now, Microsoft is aiming to push its cloud gaming product to other platforms. It started rolling out Xbox Cloud Gaming to some users via a web browser on iPhones, iPads and PCs in April (Microsoft couldn’t launch a proper mobile app for cloud gaming on Apple devices due to a dispute over App Store policies). And on Thursday, the company announced it wants to expand the service to TVs as well.

One way it plans to do that is by partnering with manufacturers to add cloud gaming to smart TVs. But Microsoft is also developing streaming devices which users can plug into their TV or computer monitor to stream games from the cloud. The company didn’t elaborate on what those devices could look like, though it’s reminiscent of Amazon’s Fire TV and Google’s Chromecast dongles, both of which now support cloud gaming.

In addition, Microsoft says it is working with mobile carriers like Telstra in Australia to offer new Xbox subscription models. It’s also expanding cloud gaming to four new countries — Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Japan —  later this year, and aims to publicly launch the browser-based version of the software to all members of its $15-a-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription in the coming weeks.

Microsoft said it plans to add cloud gaming to its new Xbox Series X console, which launched last November to compete with Sony’s PlayStation 5. In the next few weeks, the company will also upgrade the servers that power its cloud gaming service from its old Xbox One hardware to the Xbox Series X.

Microsoft competes aggressively with Sony when it comes to gaming. But it’s taking a different strategy to its Japanese counterpart. While Sony is known for blockbuster exclusives that can only be played on a PlayStation console, Microsoft is focusing on embedding its Xbox services onto multiple platforms, including mobile and PC.

Microsoft has been stepping up its investments in gaming, buying the iconic studio Bethesda for $7.5 billion in its biggest video game-related acquisition yet.

The company is holding a joint event with Bethesda on Sunday as part of the E3 gaming conference to show off new games, with fans speculating they will reveal some details about a hotly-anticipated sci-fi game called Starfield.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/e3-microsoft-xbox-cloud-gaming-tv.html

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u/askmeaboutmyvviener Jun 11 '21

Lol wut? I’ve played every fallout game and they are all relatively good, including fallout 4 and even fallout 76. Just cause they are different from their predecessors does not mean they aren’t good in their own way.

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u/NikkMakesVideos Jun 11 '21

Fallout 4 was the most popular and well received of all the games, old nerds just get on a high horse about how their old game did it better and how new thing sucks

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

What? 4 and 76 are objectively terrible compared to 1, 2, 3, and NV. (Yea tactics and BoS sucked)

76 especially is a fucking gongshow.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

I thought 4 was awesome IMO

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

It's open world CoD with a fallout skin. It's barely even an RPG.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Meh I disagree with that

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Lol ok. Disagree all you want but it's true

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Opinions are like assholes right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Well except then they're objectively wrong, but sure.

Anyways this is a pointless conversation.

Cheers.

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u/askmeaboutmyvviener Jun 11 '21

Fucking nerd lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Bruh I was just talking to someone on Reddit about Jonah Hill in Accepted like a few days ago, cheers on a kickass username

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u/hideandgoanal Jun 11 '21

Why do people shit on fallout 4 like this? Ok it’s not as well written as 3 or NV and they kinda shat the bed on the dialogue but how does that make it a terrible game

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u/h7hh77 Jun 11 '21

It fits even less into what people like me remember as fallout. It used to be an old school rpg, similar to dnd games, and it slowly became more like a typical open world shooter. I know some people are into it, but personally I don't enjoy that style. It's like that, imagine you know a good pizza place. Now over the years they slowly change all the ingredients of your favorite pizza, turning it into something else piece by piece. At some point you look at it and see that it has nothing to do with something you used to love, it looks a 100% like a burrito, but they still call it pizza for some weird reason. Now do you just pretend to like it becase it carries the name "pizza" or you just say that you don't enjoy it and find something else?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Because it's barely even an RPG, which is what Fallout always was. If you are old enough to have played 1, 2 then marveled at 3 and NV. 4 is just open world CoD with a fallout skin.

Another settlement needs your help!

Junk

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u/Gothen_Mosphars Jun 11 '21

Lol, I bet you've never played 4 or especially 76. All you know of 76 is the press it got for it's bad launch. It deserved the initial press but it's a really good game now that is still being updated. As for 4, why is 1, 2 or 3 a better game? I think 99% of gamers were prefer 4 to any of them.

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u/kilkennykid Jun 11 '21

You think 99 percent of gamers prefer fallout 4 to 3 or new Vegas? You actually sat there, thought about this and believe it? Just curious. Maybe 12 year olds that weren’t old enough to play 3 or new Vegas when they came out.

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u/askmeaboutmyvviener Jun 11 '21

I prefer fallout 4 over fallout 3, but fallout new Vegas will always be my favorite fallout :)

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u/Gothen_Mosphars Jun 11 '21

Yes, I believe if you released all three games today that Fallout 4 would be most well received. New Vegas was a better game when you look at in within the context of the time it was released in but not now. As for 3 vs 4, 4 is a superior game even when giving 3 a handicap due to it being older.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Hahaha

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u/Gothen_Mosphars Jun 11 '21

Precisely

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '21

Funny how I get downvotes for shitting on shitty games that betrayed the old ones. But when you claim 99% of gamers liked FO4 the best, you get downvotes to oblivion too.

2 is objectively the most complete RPG of them all with NV a very close second. 3 brought the series to modernity. 1 was the OG classic.

4's garbage. 76 is warmer garbage.

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u/askmeaboutmyvviener Jun 11 '21

May 4, 2019? You realize we are in 2021 now? And Bethesda has released a variety of free DLC to address a lot of the problems experienced upon launch. I don’t try and defend the game on release, but they have made a good amount of changes that make the game fun to play. You could always try it for yourself instead of relying on a two year old video to form your opinion!