Microsoft's xCloud streaming service "works well" on Steam Deck - wilkersonnotemed

Microsoft's xCloud streaming service "works well" along Steamer Deck

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Microsoft's streaming inspection and repair, xCloud, will exercise on Valve's Steam Deck.

The proclamation came good manners of Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who teased that earlier this calendar week, he'd spent time with the team at Valve, experimenting with Steam Dump and confirming that "Halo" and "Age" (presumptively Age of Empires) "feels close" on Valve's new handheld system.

While it Newmarket light of confirming how, exactly, the cyclosis service will function connected Steam Deck, it's the first gear time we've had confirmation that Microsoft's cyclosis avail is congenial with Steam Deck.

"Was @valvesoftware this week talking [with Valve staff] Scott, Erik, Gabe about Steam Deck," Xbox'a Spencer casually mentioned on Twitter earlier today (thanks, NME). "After having mine well-nig of the week I john say it's a really nice device. Games with me on the go, screen sizing, controls altogether great. Playing Ring and Age feels good, xCloud works well. Congrats [the Steam Deck] squad."

Did you catch Rachel's recent men-on preview with the Steam Deck in which she said the highest compliment she could yield to Valve's Steam Deck is: would Valve really press charges if she slipped one into her bag as she left?

"We've been looking at and working towards the Steam Adorn idea for a years directly," Valve designer Scott Dalton told GamesRadar+ in a recent interview. "We only when within the next-to-last six months passed over a threshold where we felt like we could actually deliver AAA current titles at well frame rates. All the things you would want out of playing your library.

"Beingness able to hold it in your hands, the battery – there are a bunch of things that have to reach this performance per W measurement and we've lonesome same recently gotten in that respect."

Lost the big annunciation of Valve's all-new Steam Bedeck? Compared by many to be the PC tantamount of the Nintendo Substitution, the Steamer Deck is a handheld PC that enables you to stock your Steam library with you wherever you go, and has been counterpoised to execute equally well regardless of whether it's docked or along the move.

Find out stunned how the Steamer Adorn specs comparison to the Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X in our breakdown.

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