Xbox Cloud Gaming: 30% of gamers use only touch controls! | Xbox One

Since its announcement in 2018, Xbox Cloud Gaming (formerly-project xCloud) has come a long way and now offers a substantial catalog of over 300 games from Xbox GamePass, running on all screens (smartphones running Android, iOS, Windows 10/11, Mac OS ). Little by little, Microsoft allows the player to overcome material limitations and provide practical and popular touch controls.

Only one screen will suffice

Microsoft has always trusted its rental game offer to attract more audiences. The success of the Xbox Game Pass is no longer proven and its features are constantly evolving. Touch controls are part of it and if you have a good internet connection, having a screen will allow you to start the game anywhere without any other hardware limitations. In a recent article on the subject Source From game stock developers, Microsoft is reviewing this feature and how successful it is.

This need or this desire to get rid of the console or controller is explained to us by Monty Hernandez, Senior Program Manager at Xbox through an interesting analysis. According to him, a real plus for Xbox cloud gaming program developers is that they can reach multiple players through touch controls:

In the past it was not possible to run a fully powered console header on a low powered mobile phone or PC. These devices have touchscreen capabilities and people expect experiences to scale and fully utilize the form factor. In addition, Xbox Cloud Gaming promises to be one of Accessibility and Reach. Cloud game allows developers to enjoy amazing experiences on the go, users who have never had a console and in new and emerging markets.

When Monty Hernandez talks about new and emerging markets, it is hard to think of Asian countries where the Xbox has always struggled to penetrate, but mobile gaming is consumed more often (though not on a daily basis) than in Western countries. He emphasized the ease of maneuvering by explaining that overlapping customizable code lines to add to an original file was no more than making the game tangible. For developers, like Playful Studios (New Super Lucky Tale), this is a big plus.

Touch controls are fully customizable and customizable with just a few clicks. Here, a sea of ​​pirates.

Wearing the new Super Lucky Tale on xCloud is not about simplicity. It’s so much fun, it’s a little more than just running the game and you can feel how much fun and natural it is to play on the phone. This is one of the many innovations that Microsoft is currently bringing to the game and we can not be more thrilled with the opportunity it offers us to share the luck with more players!

Touch controls are a real plus for a faster, more intuitive game experience and it will benefit even more in a title like Football Manager 2022. In any case, players do not feel bad because only 20% of them play this way. Titles that offer this orientation are played twice as often on Xbox Cloud Gaming due to this feature! As the list of touch games grows over the weeks, the experience is admirable, with some 30% of them referring to players:

• Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition
• Football Manager 2022 Xbox Edition
• The underworld
• Minecraft Basements
• New Super Lucky Tale
• Scarlet Nexus
• Yakuza: Like a dragon

If you have not yet had the opportunity to try Touch Controls, we can not recommend enough to take a look at our list of the latest custom titles that you can find exactly what you like. These will still be improved, but will allow you to interact differently with the game with the possibility of enabling AAA from your mobile phone. It’s time to convince them that video games can be a passion of touch, beyond visual or auditory.

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