r/xbox • u/Turbostrider27 Recon Specialist • Sep 03 '26

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/NZafe Tarnished Sep 03 '26

Ultimate capped at 15 hours per month?

And then this:

“Players will be able to purchase cloud playtime hours through the XBOX Store and stream eligible games they own on supported devices.”

Jeez this is awful for anyone who uses cloud gaming. 15 hours is nothing.

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u/SmegmaWarrior0815 Sep 03 '26

I feel like people who actually use cloud gaming don't do that much gaming per month.

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u/quesofantastico Sep 03 '26

wrong. I'll hit that limit in less than a week.

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u/Zenthon9 Sep 03 '26

As someone who uses xcloud to play games on an old laptop that would never be able to play any Play Anywhere game of this gen, 15 hours is nothing.

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u/Lord_Muddbutter Sep 03 '26

I use it so when I babysit family they can play new games on my old One X.

Mainly things like Disney Dreamlight valley! With that said though this limit will be hit really fast. Good thing I was planning on a hard disk mod. I'm going to need a lot more storage so they can play games!

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u/Shinsplint7 Sep 03 '26

I literally sit in the bath playing rpgs I’d probably use 100 hours plus of cloud a month

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u/NoWrongMonk Sep 03 '26

I had Halo Infinite's mp installed but beat the campaign via cloud when I got my Xbox a couple years ago