During its XFest 2022 conference, Microsoft confirmed that gamers will soon be able to use their keyboard-mouse combo to play on Xbox Cloud Gaming. For now, only controllers are compatible with the game streaming service. With this addition, which will arrive soon according to the firm, Stadia will lose its last advantage over the competition.
Microsoft’s efforts in cloud gaming have paid off. With its 10 million users, Microsoft’s service quickly established itself as the benchmark of its kind, crushing any competition in its path. Today, it is a question of raising the last ramparts which separate it from the latter. This passes, among other things, on the addition of new compatible material.
Indeed, for the time being, players must have a controller if they want to enjoy their game in streaming. A constraint that is not necessarily ideal for occasional players, in particular, who do not necessarily have a controller at home. Thus, in March, Jorg Neumann, responsible for Flight Simulator, had slipped that keyboard-mouse support was about to arrive.
The keyboard-mouse combo is coming very soon to Xbox Cloud Gaming
Since then, players have been wondering when they will be able to take advantage of this feature. They were answered at XFest 2022: ” soon “, assures Morgan Brown, who still refrains from giving a precise date. However, the thing seems to be approaching fast, especially since the developers will only have to integrate the keyboard-mouse support into their game, if this is not already the case, to make the players benefit from it.
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For Stadia, on the other hand, this is bad news. Indeed, Google’s service was one of the first to offer keyboard-mouse support on its platform, since its launch. With this addition to Xbox Cloud Gaming, the latter therefore loses its last advantage over its competitor, at a time when users seem to be deserting the service one by one. It’s still too early to tell if this will be Microsoft’s fatal blow, but it’s definitely not doing Google any good business.
