Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox

Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by wklauss on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:48PM (#27268216)

Xbox Cloud Gaming, unfortunately, it's far from ideal. For several games, lag kills the experience. And I'm not talking fast paced FPS. Even platformers can feel weird or unplayable when you add latency.

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by some-guy on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:41PM (#27268800)

I have high-speed node-to-node wireless internet in the Bay Area (~700mbps symmetrical) and cloud gaming is terrible on it, mainly due to jitter and small amounts of packet loss.

Assuming the infrastructure over time can support it, I see cloud gaming succeeding, but it only works well if the circumstances are perfect.

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by muskmelon_91 on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:31PM (#27269962)

@some-guy

Is your experience for xcloud or all the cloud gaming platforms in general?

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by some-guy on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:51PM (#27270109)

Both Stadia and xCloud. Any sort of ultra-low-latency / UDP-based protocols suffer with my kind of internet (Monkeybrains ISP in the Bay Area) because of jitter / packet loss.

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by handrous on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:59PM (#27268351)

> Even platformers can feel weird or unplayable when you add latency.

Even? Super Mario Brothers lets me know very quickly if the lag on my set-up is anything other than quite low, because I'll fall down every damn bottomless pit on the map.

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by wklauss on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:13PM (#27268502)

I got caught by surprise trying to play Ori on Xbox Cloud after having no problem at all with Cyberpunk on Stadia.

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by asdff on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:12PM (#27270305)

Competitors aren't much better. I beta tested Google's assassin creed on a gigabit connection. It still dropped me down to 144p during lag spikes like a youtube video.

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Re:Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox by zapzupnz on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:11PM (#27269133)

Hell, failing to set my TV to Game Mode makes local gaming unplayably laggy.

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