On Thursday, Microsoft announced the popular battle royale is now free to play on mobile browsers through Xbox’s cloud gaming service, which allows players to stream games straight to their devices.
It’s not clear whether Microsoft will charge a commission for any of the in-game purchases through their cloud service. Florian Ederer, an associate professor of economics at Yale School of Management, wrote in an email that the partnership is “a big opportunity” for Microsoft to build on its existing catalog of games available to stream. That said, Ederer said a player’s gameplay experience may never be as good as on an app.
“Given the Internet connection of most players, the arrangement is still suboptimal,” Ederer wrote. “This may be less of a threat for Apple as gamers might be unwilling to accept the higher latency and worse graphics of cloud-based gaming.”, Epic Games decided against offering “Fortnite” on Microsoft’s game cloud service because the developer originally saw the platform as a competitor to Epic’s own digital game store, according to a report from The Verge.
“We want to make gaming accessible to the 3 billion players around the world, and cloud has an important role in that mission,” . “Quite simply we want you to have more choice in both the games you play and the way you choose to play them.”
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