Xbox places monthly time limits to its paid cloud gaming service, insists only a fraction of players will be impacted

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News Source : Eurogamer.net

News Summary

  • Hard monthly time limits will be added to cloud gaming streaming service this November.
  • Once players run into these time limits, they'll be able to buy more directly from the Xbox store.
  • Xbox justifies these incoming monthly limits in the blog by pointing to the fact that providing cloud gaming services becomes more expensive "as more people use it and play for longer" This all comes during a hardware crisis where the cost of buying consoles and gaming PCs has become less accessible.
  • Even so, industry giants remain bullish on cloud gaming.
  • Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said he believed we'd all be streaming our games in about "three years"
Xbox has announced hard monthly time limits will be added to its cloud gaming streaming service this November.

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