Xbox caps cloud gaming at 15 hours a month for Game Pass subscribers
Summary
Xbox will limit how much time Game Pass subscribers can use its cloud gaming service each month starting in November. The highest subscription plan will allow 15 hours of online game streaming per month before extra time must be purchased.Key Facts
- Xbox will limit cloud gaming time for Game Pass Ultimate users to 15 hours per month.
- Lower subscription tiers will have stricter limits: 10 hours for premium users and 5 hours for basic Essential tier users.
- Cloud gaming lets people play games streamed from remote servers without downloading them.
- Only about 4% of Game Pass users currently use the cloud gaming feature.
- Game Pass has approximately 30 million subscribers, so roughly 1.2 million users will be affected.
- Xbox will offer cloud gaming without a subscription by selling extra "cloud playtime hours" through its store.
- Xbox’s revenue fell by $1.7 billion in the last year, and the company is restructuring, including layoffs.
- Rising costs for data centers and computer hardware partly cause the new time limits on cloud gaming.
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