The Verge confirms this, and says that the company is now “very close” to a public preview. We first heard in October of last year that the company had instead started working on a web-based approach, in which games are played in a browser. Microsoft expressed its displeasure at Apple’s stance, but didn’t give up. Apple wanted to be able to individually approve every one of the 3,500 games available through the service. We found that the app showed a lot of promise, but things came to a shuddering halt when Apple’s strict App Store policies meant it was no longer feasible.

While the preview is limited to Halo: The Master Chief Collection Microsoft eventually plans to bring all 3,500+ Xbox games to the service in the years ahead.

The iOS preview is limited to 10,000 testers with registrations open now Microsoft’s original plan was an iOS app, and it made a TestFlight version available almost a year ago to the day.Īfter debuting its Project xCloud streaming game service as a preview last fall on Android, Microsoft has today launched the preview for iOS via TestFlight. Microsoft employees are said to be testing the approach, with a public preview described as “very close” … Background xCloud, in contrast, lets you stream games directly from Microsoft servers. The project shouldn’t be confused with the iOS Xbox app, which lets you stream games from your own Xbox to your phone. Microsoft had to abandon its original plans to let people play xCloud games on iPhones and iPads via an iOS app, the same way it does on Android (above photo), but is reportedly “very close” to a public preview of a web-based workaround.

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