Furthermore, Microsoft noted that consumer spending on cloud devices accounted for a 'de minimis' proportion of the overall pie - a Latin term often used in legal text to describe something too trivial to be even worthy of consideration.

Microsoft acknowledged that the quality of native mobile games has increased alongside the power of mobile devices.Ĭoupled with the requirement for an always-online connection, Microsoft indicated that there's 'unlikely' to be a 'material demand' for cloud gaming any time soon.

When it launched, it was among the first and only times I've experienced queues to access Xbox Cloud Gaming, although I've not seen such server capacity issues since. Fortnite has been available on Xbox Cloud Gaming for quite a while. In Microsoft's CMA responses highlighted by TweakTown Editor Derek Strickland, the firm painted a bleak picture for its own cloud gaming business.Īccording to Microsoft, Xbox Cloud Gaming on mobile devices has been 'unsuccessful,' using Fortnite access as an example.

Despite winning the support of cloud competitors like NVIDIA GeForce Now by promising blanket access to ABK games, the CMA still blocked the deal, saying it didn't want to have to create and oversee a regulatory framework for the nascent market.Īccording to Microsoft, Xbox Cloud Gaming on mobile devices has been 'unsuccessful,' using Fortnite access as an example. In any case, Microsoft finds itself on the back foot with the CMA and other regulators. How it seeks to circumvent Apple and Google's rules about monetization, and indeed the very existence of third-party app stores, remains wholly to be seen - which is perhaps why it didn't espouse this strategic aim too heavily. Microsoft has expressed plans to build an Xbox store for mobile games of sorts. Microsoft has also argued its plans to break the Apple-Google duopoly over mobile payments, something Epic Games' with Fortnite is attempting to do via the courts in the United States and European Union.

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