Microsoft's Xbox Cloud service (opens in new tab), which is part of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, lets you stream games from remote Xbox Series X hardware in the cloud to a PC or mobile device. Streaming via XCloud won't work until Chrome gets an update Until we can dual boot Windows on the Steam Deck, there's really only going to be one option for getting Game Pass games on the Deck: streaming them. But for Microsoft, that would require a significant rebuild of how Game Pass functions. “Gaming phones” like the Asus ROG and Black Shark series are a growing niche, but they seem to be gaining very slow ground outside of the Asian market, where buyers are more likely to see phones as their primary or even sole gaming platform.Maybe we'll see Game Pass available through Steam someday-Valve's Gabe Newell told us they're open to the idea. After gaming competitors Sega and Sony gave up on the Game Gear and PSP, Nvidia gave it a shot with its original Shield handheld, before shifting focus to tablets and then set-top boxes. Logitech and Tencent are the latest in a long line of companies that have tried to muscle in on Nintendo’s dominance of dedicated portable gaming machines. Foregoing expensive hardware necessary for high-end local playback might allow the device to come in at an incredibly competitive price point. No technical details were posted, but a streaming-focused device certainly implies an ARM-based gaming machine, perhaps similar in size and form factor to something like the Ayn Loki, GPD XD Plus, and various other mobile game machines. The announcement claims that the Logitech handheld is planned for release by the end of this calendar year. While the Switch is based on Nvidia’s Tegra platform originally meant for high-end, ARM-based mobile gaming, and the Steam Deck uses an ultra-efficient version of AMD’s 圆4-based Ryzen platform also seen in laptops, the as-yet-unnamed and unseen Logitech G handheld could minimize local hardware almost entirely, offloading most of the heavy lifting of graphics and gameplay to remote streaming servers. Invoking the names of the two leading game streaming platforms is telling. “The new device will support multiple cloud gaming services, and both companies are working with the Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now teams,” Logitech says in its press release. Here’s the twist: instead of primarily focusing on local games, as has been the model since the original Game Boy, this one will focus on streaming cloud games. According to a blog post, Logitech is teaming up with Chinese mega-publisher Tencent to create a dedicated gaming handheld in the style of Nintendo’s Switch or Valve’s Steam Deck. Logitech has had a growing presence in the PC gaming market for years, but it looks like the company is preparing to expand in a big way.
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