it looks like xCloud just got the Xbox Series X hardware upgrade for certain games. Yakuza, Rainbow Six Siege, and others are showing 120fps or gfx options, and are loading faster pic.twitter.com/BUU866V0BF
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 22, 2021
Xbox is reportedly rolling out Series X server blades for cloud gaming
Players are seeing significant improvements to load times and frame rates
Microsoft is reportedly in the process of rolling out Xbox Series X server blades for Xbox cloud gaming.
According to numerous players, Xbox Series X server blades are now live for some games, providing a significant performance boost.
Xbox’s cloud gaming service launched powered by Xbox One S consoles in server blades, but Microsoft recently confirmed plans to upgrade to Xbox Series X hardware in the near future.
“We’re now in the final stages of internal testing, and we’ll be upgrading the experience for [Xbox Game Pass] Ultimate members in the next few weeks,” Kareem Choudhry, head of cloud gaming at Microsoft, said earlier this month.
While Microsoft still hasn’t made an official announcement about the rollout of Xbox Series X server blades for cloud gaming, many users are reporting significant improvements to load times and frame rates.
According to a round-up of user accounts on Resetera, the following games now appear to be using Xbox Series X server blades:
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Outriders
- Sea of Thieves
- Yakuza Like a Dragon
- Wolfenstein Youngblood
- Gears 5
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Elder Scrolls Online
- Gears Tactics
- MLB The Show
- No Mans Sky
- State of Decay 2
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Call of the Sea
- Conan Exiles
- CrossCode
- Dark Alliance
- Dead by Daylight
- Descenders
- Desperados III
- Destiny 2
- Dirt 5
- For Honor
- GONNER2
- Grounded
- Halo MCC
- Haven
- Human Fall Flat
- Maneater
- Minecraft Dungeons
- Morkredd
- Planet Coaster
- Second Extinction
- Stellaris
- Subnautica
- Superhot Mind Control Delete
- The Falconeer
- The Touryst
- The Wild at Heart
- Warhammer Vemintide 2
- We Happy Few
- Yes Your Grace
- Zombie Army 4
Microsoft currently offers cloud gaming on Android mobile devices as part of its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription service. And in April it began inviting Game Pass Ultimate members to a cloud gaming beta for Windows 10 PCs and Apple devices via web browsers Edge, Chrome and Safari.
Cloud gaming will be added directly into the Xbox app on PC and integrated into the Xbox console experience later this year.