Microsoft adds another five Xbox games to Boosteroid

Phantasy Zebra said:I forgot right after I replied... Until this notification.

Still don't care enough 😂

Definitely sounds like something you may wanna see a doctor about

ElDiabloLoco90 said:I think you need to hust make a free account not pay to see. Though I agree with your sentiment.

But here in case you still care:

https://cloudbase.gg/boosteroid-games/

Fejer said:I'm pretty sure these are the PC versions being streamed and not the Xbox Versions, but I could be wrong, that's what I saw described on Twitter

Mr Science Cat said:So… plex? Ish?

Count me in with the crowd that'd never heard of Boosteroid.

Seems pointless if we've already got game pass.

What’s this Boosteroid? What do I benefit from it?

New Paralyzer said:As far as I know "xCloud" in Xbox currently uses Xbox Series X as the hardware but virtualized so that the games run under asl Series S container on that cloud hardware, making it possible for 2 users to play on the same cloud server. Digital Foundry has a comparison video between Xbox xCloud streaming and PlayStation Plus (PS Now) streaming where they explain it in detail: https://youtu.be/KI5E4jG_JZE

GeForce Now uses of course PC versions for streaming. Their sales pitch is that you get all the fancy features including ray-tracing, for which you would otherwise need an expensive PC, but you need to bring your own game account (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG).

In case of Boosteroid I didn't look it up but I guess it's the PC version.

i Bright x said:I definitely could’ve looked this up by now, but I dunno, just not feelin google today.

Haha, another late ones to the subscription service party, wanting another piece of cake from suckers. No thank you.

zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz said: day later and 3 replies in this post still not looked haha

Kept reading the article expecting that, at some point, it would tell me what Boosteroid is, but no such luck.

Reading the comments, it seems like maybe that might have been some useful information to include, as no one seems to have any idea what the fuck it is.

It's got Rimworld, so maybe it's worth another subscription fee?

Phantasy Zebra said:Just as I’ve forgotten, I’m pulled back in, but ugh, that’s like a whole other tab I have to open to look this up. Maybe tomorrow haha.

zDrUnKeNMoNkEyz said:I forgot once again until I got home from work and saw this notification ...

Once again, I still don't care enough to go and find out lmao

I care more about replying to this, to let you guys know how much I still don't care 😂

i Bright x said:Lmao once again I forgotten also just looked my notifications in bed before going to sleep 😴 tomorrow is a new day maybe we will find out then ahhaha

Seen way too many people say they've never heard of Boosteroid. First heard of them, when MS said, during the ABK acquisition phase, that they signed an agreement to allow Boosteroid to stream Xbox games. This was around the same time Nintendo signed their 10 year agreement with MS.

These agreements were attempts to appear to antitrust regulators.

I listen to a lot of Xbox podcasts, so I'm quite jealous of those not knowing these types of information.

See a few people think the same as me. "Sign Up" to see what games we have. All you're having is a laugh. I've tried a few Cloud games, but even with my 300mb line they take ages to load (normally quicker to download and play) and as I already have GPU whats the point

Surely they could come up with a better name than Boosteroid.