Microsoft is grabbing quite a few headlines in recent days, its logo changes and redesign of its store now adds the official launch date of Project xCloud for Android . Next September the expected service will arrive along with a good catalog of games and Game Pass. This is all you need to know.
Project xCloud for Android
Project xCloud will be launched officially and exclusively for Android devices on September 15 . This has been announced by Microsoft itself which is super plugged in recent days.
The video game service via streaming from Microsoft logically will not come alone. Along with its presentation and launch for devices with the Google operating system, the company also promises that there will be more than one hundred games available so that they can be enjoyed on both tablets and phones. And for that you only have to download the application.
However, the best of all is that it will come with Game Pass Ultimate and that will give you the option to enjoy all those titles for a monthly payment of 12.99 euros . The initial list provided by Microsoft includes these thirty-six games:
- Ark: Survival Evolved
- Bleeding Edge
- Costume Quest 2
- Crackdown 3 (campaign)
- Destiny 2
- F1 2019
- Forza Horizon 4
- Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
- Gears of War 4
- Gears 5 Ultimate Edition
- Grounded
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
- Halo Wars 2
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Halo: Spartan Assault
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Killer Instinct Definitive Edition
- Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
- Minecraft dungeons
- The Outer Worlds
- Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Quantum Break
- ReCore: Definitive Edition
- Ryse: Son of Rome
- Sea of Thieves: Anniversary Edition
- State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
- Sunset Overdrive
- Super Lucky’s Tale
- Tell me why
- The Bard’s Tale Trilogy
- Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut
- Wasteland 3
- Wasteland Remastered
- Yakuza Kiwami 2
This is the first step towards a new game option that will be available in 22 countries, including Spain. Little by little we will get to know more games and we will also see more related products, such as the controls that have already been released and that will improve the gaming experience on mobile with more precise controls.
Anyway, remember that practically any Bluetooth remote can be used with an Android mobile device. Although these are the best gamepad to fully enjoy games on your smartphone.
Project xCloud on iPad and iPhone?
The bad news is that iPhone and iPad users will have to wait . Also those who play on the computer, but here we know that sooner or later it will come. The problem with Apple‘s mobile devices is that the company has rules for its App Store that have already given problems in the past due to licenses.
And, Apple only allows this type of subscription as long as the company that develops the application also has the rights to the games it includes. That is, you have paid for them to be exclusively on your platform as they do with the Apple Arcade catalog, more or less.
A controversial and questionable decision like many others, but which must be accepted as is, however much they may weigh. So you just have to be patient and wait to see what happens. Because if xCloud arrived it would also mean the possibility that other platforms did that, never better said, could also give a lot of play like GeForce Now.
