https://wccftech.com/xcloud-latency-local-still-best/

The excitement over our glorious all-streaming future has faded somewhat in recent months. Google Stadia launched in November to somewhat middling reviews and widespread player apathy, but what about Microsoft’s Project xCloud? The Xbox cloud gaming service is currently in beta and by most accounts feedback has been pretty solid, but following Stadia’s less-than-impressive debut, it seems Microsoft is being careful to not over promise.

In a recent interview with Game Informer, members of the xCloud team do boast about how easy it is for developers to make their games streamable (launching a game takes as little as 30 minutes), but they soft pedalled on some other subjects. For instance, Project xCloud vice president Kareem Choudhry admits latency isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Instead, Microsoft is focusing on consistency of performance.