Xcloud, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft’s service with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, will have keyboard and mouse support. Goodbye to the Gamepad?
Cloud streaming service Microsoft, Xbox Cloud Gaming, known as Xcloud, will soon introduce new support to facilitate reaching more users. This service is included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimateand thanks to recent statements we know that soon will have keyboard and mouse support.
We know this thanks to a community question and answer session, where the head of Microsoft Flight Simulator answer about this. According to the sayings of Jorg Neumann: “the next step for us is the mouse-keyboard. This is platform level support so it has nothing to do with us obviously mouse-keyboard works for our sim.”
The strong point is that it will be very useful to have an extra alternative to the existing controls for the different titles of the service. Although the use of touch was strong for mobile devices, with the arrival of the mouse and mouse, platforms such as Windows and macOS they will benefit.
Regarding when we will have this new version of Xbox Cloud Gaming with keyboard and mousewe do not know yet. Jorg Neumann said: “The platform team is working on this, and no, I can’t give a date […] but it’s coming”. Yes OK Neumann could not give an exact date, if he dared to name a month as a possibility. for the boss of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the mouse and keyboard will arrive around Junealthough we know that it is something of months and not of weeks.
In what confers Microsoft Flight Simulatorthis title supports mouse and keyboard only on PC and Xbox. For this reason, when tested in the service of XCloudwe will necessarily need a game pad. What’s more, Neumann assured that Microsoft Flight Simulator will receive touch controls in the coming months, and that they are looking to add gyroscope support on these devices.
Xbox Game Pass Xcloud is not yet working officially in Argentina. Although the service is included in Game Pass Ultimate, the servers do not allow you to connect from ISP or national networks. For this you have to use a VPN or wait for it to be officially activated.
This will be another great addition to the cloud service of microsoftwho last year made it possible for Xbox One users to enjoy Xbox Series X games.