Microsoft announced a long-awaited feature For Xbox Cloud Gaming. Starting today, you’ll be able to stream select games you own on TVs and Meta Quest VR headsets, as well as phones, tablets and PCs on supported browsers, in every country where Xbox Cloud Gaming is available. Microsoft plans to expand this feature to Xbox consoles and the Windows Xbox app next year.
You still need to be an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate member to use this feature, but that means you’re no longer limited to streaming games on that service. “Broadcast your own game” option includes support for 50 titles at launchwill be added later. You can broadcast likes Cyberpunk 2077, Stray, The Witcher 3, Balatro, Animal Well, NBA 2K25, Baldur’s Gate 3 and several Final Fantasy games. Just search for it “Broadcast your own game” section In Cloud Gaming.
An Xbox spokesperson confirmed to Engadget that “a digitally purchased game is required to stream games you own.” So you won’t be able to stream a physical copy, for example: Farming Simulator 25 via this feature, but remote play is still an option if you have a disc on your Xbox Series X.
While it’s great that people have more ways to play their games, the move is the same as Xbox is stepping into a fully digital future — one that gamers without access to fast, reliable Internet connections can fall behind on. It also allows Xbox to expand its cloud gaming offerings without paying third-party developers and publishers big bucks to get their projects right on Game Pass.
The flow of your own game initiative is also connected Microsoft’s new advertising campaign about all kinds of devices being Xbox when they’re not actually Xbox. The release comes a day after Sony’s public launch testing the cloud gaming option On the PlayStation Portal, a feature that the device should have had from the start.
Update Nov. 20, 1:41 p.m. ET: Additional clarification that only digitally purchased games from Xbox are eligible for streaming, not physical copies.
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