A new presentation just showcased some Xbox cloud gaming enhancements
Xbox cloud gamingmouse and keyboard support, continually teased for roughly a year now, is finally coming to the platform.Announced by way of the Microsoft Game Dev YouTube channelin a stream meant to assist developers creating projects on the Xbox platform, the long-awaited feature is going to be rolled out widely this year.
Xbox engineer Morgan Brown started the segment (which begins at 16:45 in the below video) on how they’ve been looking at adding the feature “for a while now,” and are finally implementing it. As Brown puts it, developers can add the feature “right now,” as a way to plus up the game for folks who aren’t using cloud gaming on PC already.
Brown also touched on a few other topics that will make Xbox cloud gaming that much smoother in the future:
All good stuff! So far Microsoft has been one of the better purveyors of cloud gaming, so hopefully the above bullet point enhancements continue to flow like wine.
