Did you know ? You can play Xbox Game Pass streaming games from your Xbox, your PC, your smartphones, your TV, but also from your connected watch.
In a video posted on YouTube, the Cloud Gaming Xtreme account proves that Microsoft services work on absolutely all devices. The youtubeur has taken on the heavy task of streaming games through the Xbox Game Pass on a connected watch running Android, the Kospet Prime 2, more precisely.
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Microsoft has made the technical choice to offer Xbox Cloud Gaming through Game Pass on all possible and imaginable platforms. To enjoy this game streaming service, just go to “xbox.com using a compatible controller and browser”. This is what Cloud Gaming Xtreme does, using the smartwatch’s Chrome browser to connect to the service and synchronizing its controller via Bluetooth. If we add to this that Microsoft plans to let us map keyboard keys on the Xbox controller, we will realize that the video game streaming sector has already reached maturity.
This gamer plays Halo and other AAA games on a smartwatch!
Is a connected watch the ideal medium to indulge in games such as GTA V, which is back in the Game Pass catalog? Probably not, the image is tiny, the sound atmosphere and the sound effects are inaudible, but the experience of this Internet user shows us that the game from Rock Star Games does not suffer from any slowdown or annoying latency.
Our user then launches a platform game, Dead Cells, which he controls through the touch screen of the Kospet Prime 2. In this context, the experience turns out to be much less pleasant, the watch seeming to struggle to process touch commands quickly. Suffice to say that such a difficult game is unplayable on this kind of device. Finally, Xtreme moves to Halo. If in this FPS, achieve a headshot is impossiblethe gamer claims that the title remains “really playable” on the connected watch.