The report of the British regulator found data on the situation in the cloud gaming market in 2021. According to them, that year Microsoft earned less than $50 million on its xCloud service, which is no more than 10% of the revenue of the entire market.

xCloud streaming service has become available on iOS and PC. Microsoft has announced the launch of an open beta test in 22 countries. Russia is not among them.

Apple continues to make arguments why services such as xCloud should not appear in the App Store. Now she stressed that gaming streaming services are fickle, which cannot be said about video platforms like Netflix. The games in them are like separate applications, interactive and constantly changing. Despite the fact that Netflix also has interactive content. For example, the movie “Black Mirror: Bandashmyg”.

Indie developers are required to agree to support the xCloud streaming service if they want to publish games on Xbox. Epic Games‘ internal documents state that this is a matter of principle for Microsoft, and the company uses “harsh expressions regarding the requirement.” All unsuitable games are not allowed by Microsoft or removed from the Xbox ecosystem.

Last year, Microsoft fought for the appearance on iOS of the service for “playing in the cloud” xCloud. From the letters published during the trial between Epic Games and Apple, it became known that a similar Shadow Cloud Computing service suffered because of this struggle.

Microsoft has found a way to circumvent Apple’s restrictions on cloud gaming. xCloud streaming service will appear on iOS next year as a browser application, bypassing the App Store.