Harry Bizzle wrote:rinks wrote:Monkey Man wrote:rinks wrote:more heat than light wrote:Anyone who had even the slightest interest in XCloud could have tried it out months ago.
Unless they didn’t have an Android phone or tablet.
It's been on IOS & PC for a while as well.
Oh, great. Maybe they should update the official website that explicitly states the requirements include an Android device.
https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-game-st ... ect-xcloud
They ran a beta on iOS but it was limited to one game. Basically, App Store guidelines say you can't release a game which gives access to loads of other games, or something like that. This held up Steam streaming for a year, and that was streaming from a device in your house to another device in your house, rather than full on cloud streaming.
So unless Apple decide to stop being annoying idiots, it's not coming any time soon, sadly.
You can stream lots of games but you can't create a launcher that contains links to lots of games, its what screwed Shadow over for a little but as their app gives you a list of the games you have installed on your Shadow PC, once they removed that it was fine.
The way round it I guess would a 1 central app for managing sub etc. and each game is downloaded as its only iOS add so they are their own littel bubble I guess.
Basically it is Apple being dicks, its a simialr reason to why you can't buy Kindle books on the iOS Amazon App or Kindle app.