Xbox Cloud Streaming Down For 24 Hours, Microsoft Confirms

On December 26, Microsoft confirmed that its Sport Cross cloud streaming platform wasn’t working as anticipated. Over 24 hours later, many gamers are nonetheless complaining about lengthy waits and disconnects. This outage comes at a time when Microsoft has been pushing a brand new advertising and marketing slogan that claims every part related to the web is an Xbox.

As reported by Engadget, beginning round 12:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, customers started complaining of lengthy waits and disconnects when making an attempt to play video games through Xbox’s cloud streaming service. This feature is out there to Sport Cross Final subscribers and lets them play a big library of video games throughout a number of units, together with tablets, telephones, and TVs. Nonetheless, as of 4:30 p.m. ET right this moment, Xbox doesn’t appear to have a timetable for when streaming might be again up and working for everybody.

On December 26, about an hour after the outage began, Xbox help tweeted out that the corporate was “conscious” that “customers could also be experiencing points launching Cloud Gaming titles.” The account advised folks to test on the official Xbox standing web page for updates. Since then, issues haven’t improved a lot.

On December 27 at 10 a.m. ET, the corporate posted a follow-up claiming that customers would possibly see an extended wait time displayed when launching a sport on the cloud, however that this wait time wasn’t correct. Nonetheless, checking the feedback on the publish and elsewhere, it nonetheless looks like folks can’t even join and play video games on their telephones or different units. As of three:30 p.m. ET, the Xbox help web page states: “We’re close to resolving the issue.”

I count on the difficulty might be resolved, seemingly a number of hours after this publish goes stay (or sooner). However the timing couldn’t be worse.

This vacation season, Xbox actually pushed the concept that its cloud streaming possibility could replace a console. You didn’t want an Xbox if you happen to had been a Sport Cross subscriber with cellphone or a sensible TV. You would simply stream all these video games immediately. And in consequence, I think about that this Christmas season noticed a whole lot of youngsters and teenagers get Sport Cross subs to allow them to stream games without their parents having to buy a pricey Xbox.

Lots of people are most likely experiencing cloud streaming for the primary time this vacation season and, properly, this outage is a really blunt reminder that whilst you can stream video games in your cellphone, it ain’t an Xbox. An Xbox can work with out an web connection, and it could play your video games offline. A cellphone can’t. Perhaps Xbox ought to make that extra clear in all these cute adverts selling each system as an Xbox?

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