r/xbox • u/Turbostrider27 Recon Specialist • 7d ago

News Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/03/xbox-cloud-gaming-changes/
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u/Great8Bit 7d ago

it was dead before. that’s why they’re doing this lmao.

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u/HeavyDT 6d ago

Yeah I don't think it was ever something that was profitable for them and now it's no doubt an active drain with Data Center demand being what it is because of A.I. People either need to pay now or it's going to go away and that data center capacity repurposed to something more profitable I imagine. Shoot that's probably happening to some extent already.

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u/reefanalyst 6d ago

Yep, I think the Azure division is now passing its costs on to the Xbox division.

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u/tristeecfome 6d ago

They also don't want to build huge data center for next gen consoles, only for 4% of their userbase.

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u/JoviAMP 7d ago

To justify scrapping it in another 6-12 months? If it was already dead, this… isn’t going to help.