Cloud gaming

transformers the marvels it's all that activity bring those

back yeah i agree that's where i'm at with it yeah that'd be sick actually i saw what the distant digital program which we're going to talk about in our next topic i did see that um there were people sharing online like deadpool for example is accessible digitally if you have the physical disc now as part of like that program even though it's a delisted digital game i know pretty huge pretty huge because you can take advantage of like the cloud gaming benefits at least in a limited capacity now yeah let's all go talk everyone everyone was writing in last week saying they thought brad would be on the episode because of that but i was like i don't know if it's nuclear bad but it's it's it's still bad um but yeah you can take advantage of that or the play anywhere stuff so uh that pretty significant to see that kind of preservation especially in light of again i talked about last week but like playstation being like reasonable consumers know they don't own their digital games.

I'm like, reasonably speaking, kiss my ass, dude.

What are you fucking doing? They

Best of luck to all these devs, man.

I mean, I just, I don't know.

Let's get into Xbox's cloud gaming snafu.

So here's the official post.

So don't know what family it is, but we'll have to wait and see with that said though, I'm, I'm intrigued by it.

But again, for every time you and I, get very positive on xbox for some of us they get negative and i say some of us because you and i had a disagreement on on xbox because xbox you know earlier this year asha sharma you know gained the you know support of fans by reducing the monthly price of of tiers of xbox game pass but you got to say to yourself okay what's the catch what's the catch what's the catch oh well we found out what that catch is is xbox cloud gaming now depending on where you're at as far as which level of xbox game pass you have you have either essential premium or ultimate it now gets capped off at 5 10 and 15 hours and before i i tell you wrong Because I was a Game Pass user who did extensively use cloud gaming.

I know you and Josh would not be on my side on that because Josh says he can't get cloud gaming for the life of it.

His signal just does not allow for it.

So I can get that.

Copy that, Xbox Anywhere.

Good point.

So if anything is an Xbox, then Xbox cloud gaming would pretty much be a very, very big deal because anything can be considered an Xbox, right? Right.

xbox on welcome to xbox on a podcast with one host about one console xbox i'm said host jesse de rosa and on today's episode we talk my latest xbox news for the week of september 10th 2026 including xbox puts limits on cloud gaming time per month gta 6 is causing a spike in xbox console sales big teases are happening for blizzcon this year all that and more On this week in Xbox history, in the year 2008, 18 years ago, Shot of Shogi? What the fuck? Yeah, Shot of Shogi was released on September 10th, 2008 for the Xbox 360.

This was an Xbox Live Arcade game based on Shogi, the chess-like Japanese tabletop game.

I don't know why this British company, Rubicon Development, AI Factory Limited, why they made this Xbox version.

But anyway, that's just some positive little anecdotal stuff to put up front as we then transition away from something awesome Xbox is doing to something that is incredibly lame.

So let's move into that.

Our first story comes from VGC, and it says that Xbox will soon cap the number of hours Game Pass subscribers can use cloud gaming, requiring users to purchase additional playtime.

In a statement, Xbox said that it made the change because the cost of providing cloud gaming grows as more people use it and play for longer.

Moving to monthly limits allows us to keep offering this service while continuing to invest in it reliably and performance-wise.

We'll, uh, actually get to celebrate a little victory lap for Paul, who finally got Microsoft to do the right thing on its financial reporting.

Maybe they didn't do exactly the right thing on their pricing on Xbox cloud gaming.

We'll, we'll talk about that.

And it came from IFA, some of the interesting hardware Paul saw last week in Berlin.

This is, you know, for the player, kind of a no-brainer.

Um, and then Call of Duty and Activision happens and it blows the model up, and then they have to pull back and now people are really mad at them 'cause you, you said, you know, like the thing I get all the time, "You said..." [laughs] And it's like, yeah, but you know, like things have changed, right? So there, there are kind of ups and downs here obviously.

But one of the minor kind of pieces of the Game Pass puzzle is this cloud gaming thing.

The, um, I already forgot the name of it.

Microsoft...

So Microsoft switches to monthly hour limits in big change to Xbox Cloud gaming sites, and they, and they're citing rising cloud costs.

So Game Pass Ultimate gets 15 hours.

Game Pass Premium gets 10 hours.