eXcentris

Apparently it only works with a 2023+ Firestick 4K/MAX. I have a 2022, I'm not sure what's so special about 2023. But someone will surely try to load it on older devices. Otherwise well, there's Prime Day coming in a couple of weeks.

RichC2

Neat. I played some Fallout 3 on there (it was free when the show came out), it's laggy but playable and looks great.

Works with any bluetooth compatible gamepad (latter Xbox One, PS4 pads)

tanman

And MS takes another step closer to exiting out of the console race.

Dang. No firecube support.

Adam Tyner

Though, to be fair, "Xbox = ecosystem, not a console" has been a thing for quite a few years. They announced their cloud gaming initiative 6 years ago, had mobile gaming working in 2020, added the ability to play Xbox games in a web browser in 2021, and launched their first TV apps in 2022.

Dan

In addition to Adam’s comment, they have also quite emphatically said that their next generation console will be some kind of ‘biggest technical leap’ ever, which, to be fair, is probably code for ‘Xbox with Artificial Intelligence!’ but still means they intend to release some kind of console hardware, even if it’s very different from what we are used to.

That said, the cloud gaming stuff is neat, but far from great and very hit or miss, especially on the MS side of things. Nvidia’s cloud service is leaps and bounds ahead, with far less latency, artifacting, etc.
What I’m saying is, I don’t think this cloud streaming stuff is going to supplant ‘local’ gaming on some kind of actual box or device for most people.

Adam Tyner

The theory I saw about this is that it’s more of an MS limitation than a Firecube limitation. Like, to avoid overloading the infrastructure. I haven’t used xCloud much recently, but I’ve heard that the wait times can be pretty terrible.

OldBoy

Is this the same as Luna? Because this pops up on my firecube and says I can just use my controller to play Xbox games. Is this accurate? Sorry I’m not looking through thread.

nickdawgy

Dude. The thread was 5 posts before yours. Its not like you had to dig

OldBoy

I guess I don’t have this gamepad, then I guess not for me, but I would have liked to try it at least.

Decker

FYI : The newest Firestick 4K is $34.99 currently for Prime members. For that price I might just pick one up to play upstairs or on vacation.

Decker

This is smart marketing for newbies to the ecosystem.

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OldBoy

I'm sure I'll get roasted, but what is the point of usurping the console and playing on tv without console?

Noonan

The purpose for MS is to stop losing millions on hardware. The purpose for customers is to not have to buy an expensive console to play game. You simply need internet. It's not different than cloud gaming on any other device that's been available for a while. Now it's just also on Amazon Fire Stick.