Since it was officially launched a couple of years ago, xCloud has been a service that has not stopped receiving news from Microsoft, resulting in one of the best cloud gaming systems that we can currently find in the gaming market. Without going any further, just this month it was confirmed the compatibility that will reach Samsung TVs with the service, and now we have been able to know that xCloud will add keyboard and mouse support soon..
It has been Morgan Brown, a software engineer on Microsoft’s Xbox streaming games team, that the service’s team is working with developers to include keyboard and mouse support in games on the service, according to reports from The Verge.
xCloud to add keyboard and mouse support, among other new features
In addition, as noted by the media, Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, already advanced the possible compatibility of these peripherals with xCloud. Logically, this feature will be effective for those games streamed through PC in its Xbox version.
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But what xCloud will add keyboard and mouse support is not the only new feature. we may see in the coming months. Microsoft has announced that it is developing a new API that will be able to save up to 72ms of latency in general, which will be achieved through Direct Storage.
For now, this technology will only support a maximum resolution of 1440p, but those in Redmond are trying to improve these numbers, and manage to deliver the coveted 4K figure through cloud gaming.