Really it's more for the Japanese gaming market IMO.
The Switch is by far the dominant device in that market.
And it allows Square Enix to bring some of their franchises that are more technically demanding to the platform (Guardians of the Galaxy, Kingdom Hearts)
For anybody that has a PS4/Xbox One, Series X/PS5, in addition to the Switch then for sure it doesn't make sense. Gives anybody who only has the switch the opportunity to play some different games though.
The bigger surprise is that they didn't just natively port KH 1.5 / 2.5 to the switch, and sell KH 3 as a cloud based version.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I'm pretty impressed with Cloud Gaming. I was wasting some time after work yesterday and saw that DIRT 5 was on Game Pass. It was a pretty huge install and I didn't have a ton of time to wait around for it (Gigabit internet connection or not), but I noticed it had a cloud gaming option, so what the hell.
For something like a racing game where you know that split-second reactions are the difference between making a corner and drifting into a wall, I was blown away how well the game played. Caveats: I have a really fast home connection, and high-end home wireless network, and I didn't have quite as good an experience using my laptop to play Forza Horizon 5 on Cloud Gaming over a crappier wireless network elsewhere. But if you've got the support of a good network behind you, damn, some pretty great results can be had.
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I have a bad 50mbps copper connection and even with that xCloud is passable to just to try a GamePass game to see if it’s something I want to download but probably not good enough for extended gaming sessions or anything long term.
But yeah if you have a fibre connection and strong network set up then I think xCloud is a legitimate option now, especially for a more casual gamer.
Even Stadia is a lot better now than when it first launched according to those people that are using it.