While the concept of Project xCloud which later went on to launch without the project title for mobile device is a miracle for many users to marvel over, it’s the touch screen controls that truly encapsulates the magic for the new peripheral. Originally pioneered by The Coalition ahead of the Android release for the service, the one game that truly implemented the control scheme is Mojang Studios’ Minecraft Dungeons upon launch.
In a later report from Windows Central, roughly 40 percent of its users played the game uniquely with touch screen controls. With an evidently high number of users that play exclusively on mobile, this illustrated a large opportunity for Microsoft to welcome a new entry for a greater branch of players. Elsewhere in a release from Microsoft back in October, there are now more than 100 games with touch screen support.
When speaking to The Verge in a new story, Microsoft shared that an average of 20 percent of players that use xCloud play with only touch screen controls.
[Twenty] percent of our Xbox Cloud Gaming users use touch as their exclusive method of playing games. As such, it’s important to us that the touch-enabled games we launch are relevant and, most importantly, play well with touch controls.
Monty Hernandez, Xbox Senior Program Manager
“We’ve seen, on average, a 2x increase in usage for titles available via Xbox Cloud Gaming, across genres, that implement touch controls,” Hernandez adds in a separate statement. From the same piece, there are a total of seven games that the 30 percentile use touch screen controls: Hades, New Super Lucky’s Tale, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon’s Quest XI, Minecraft Dungeons, and Football Manager 2022 Xbox Edition.
The discovery comes at a surprise now with xCloud expanding to console hardware. While it was already achievable with Microsoft Edge Chromium in the past, native support for xCloud on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S has launch last month. You can read the full report by heading here.
Are you part of the 20 percent that plays touch screen controls exclusively on xCloud?
Source: The Verge
