Microsoft’s best new Xbox feature won’t work with iPhones or iPads

[Chris Smith]

• The Project xCloud Xbox game streaming app will not be available on iPhone and iPad when the Microsoft subscription service launches in September.
• Apple explained the reasons that prevent it from approving the app for the App Store.
• The game streaming product would not follow the same guidelines that apply to other developers, including giving Apple the ability to review the Project xCloud games individually.
• Project xCloud launches on September 15th, and the $15 monthly subscription will offer buyers access to over 100 Xbox games.

Before the Xbox Series X launches this fall, Microsoft will launch its game streaming product that’s been so long in the making. Project xCloud will work just like Google Stadia, allowing players to stream Xbox games from the cloud to devices that would otherwise be unable to run console games in the first place. Playing some of your favorite Xbox games on a smartphone or tablet, and switching back and forth between the console and an xCloud device could be a major selling point for the Series X. It’s certainly a significant advantage that Microsoft has over the PlayStation 5. Microsoft’s version of the “Netflix for games” concept could be available free of charge to Series X buyers who purchase the console under Microsoft’s Xbox All Access program. The installment plan also includes free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. And Microsoft already confirmed that the standalone Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription would offer free access to xCloud this fall.

But a category of Xbox gamers will not be able to take advantage of xCloud for quite a while. That’s iPhone and iPad owners, as Microsoft’s game streaming product hasn’t been approved in the App Store. And it might be a while until Apple and Microsoft come to terms about how to make game streaming possible on iOS devices and other Apple hardware.

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