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Microsoft would prepare to launch a free variant of the Xbox Cloud Gaming … with advertising


In reality, this new free option would be at a very advanced stage of its development since according to our colleagues from The Verge, and more particularly the very initiated Tom Warren, Microsoft employees are already using this featurebefore deployment in public beta in the coming months.

Advertising to play your own games

You have read correctly, this feature of interest in Xbox Cloud Gaming, it would however have serious restrictions on use or content: this free version would allow you to play in Cloud Gaming to titles funded by advertising, of course, but it would seem that we are talking about Our own games already possessed in our libraryby adding the Some games eligible for Free Play Days (allowing you to try games for free for a weekend) but also Some Xbox Retro Classics games.

This new option therefore did not concern the games of the Xbox Game Pass And even less the day one heard games, now reserved for the highest level at € 26.99 monthly. According to the information collected by The Verge, which still tends to be checked during an official announcement in the coming months, the current tests would look towards a set of Advertisements surrounding the two minutes before you can launch a maximum one hour session in Cloud Gaming, with a maximum of five sessions per month and per user.

This is not the first time that such an offer has been mentioned or envisaged by the manufacturer, but apparently, this time is the right one. The service would probably be available on all devices welcoming the Xbox Cloud Gaming. However, it remains to be seen what will be the resolution or debit allocated to this free service, now that the Xbox Cloud Gaming has left its beta status and that it offers several speeds of access to the service according to your subscription level.