 Hey guys, Thundie E here and welcome to Game Pass Cloud One Year Review. Now joking. I've been using it for about a month, but I've also been using the beta service for almost a year. So let's go ahead and start gaming. Okay, okay, okay. So Xbox Game Pass Cloud originally was called Project X Cloud and then X Cloud which is the beta service. It came out around October, November last year and I was able to get my hands on that early and experience the service. Now watching it grow, it started off with maybe around 30 games at launch I believe with the beta service and then it moved by January, moved to maybe about 70 games and over 100 and it was just more games to play and access. But it's now part of Game Pass and Game Pass has a lot of games. So what is Game Pass? You probably are asking if you don't know. Game Pass is Microsoft's Netflix for gaming. It's a streaming game service in terms of streaming and downloads where you can play as many games as you want. So the way Game Pass Ultimate works, the difference is Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate. Ultimate gives you access to play on three platforms, which is why Microsoft talks about the gamer being in the center and everything around them. So your Xbox being your Xbox One or your Xbox Series S or Series X is your console, you can also play games through Game Pass on your PC and you can stream on your mobile device. On both PC and console you can download those games and from the app you can download and install on any console or PC that you have. I really like that feature. Then on the mobile side of things you can stream your games. What's cool about Game Pass is that you can play the same games on your PC or console and continue that on your mobile device. So if what's arising is one I do play quite a bit, play it on my TV, enjoy it there and I can play it on my mobile device and enjoy it right there as well. So I can decide to display my mobile device while somebody else watches the TV or I can go out into the real world, maybe go to a coffee shop or on the road, wherever that I am, I can play mobile. So whether it's over LTE or 5G. I did do a 5G video, guys go check that out to see full 5G gameplay but it worked really well over 5G and it was good to see that connection and connectivity fast speeds made everything run really, really smooth. Now looking at the service itself, the menu system is very simple. You have the ability to go to any of the tabs you want, PC of course, Xbox and mobile. Now mobile you can start streaming games and one of the games I was happy to see is Doom Eternal. Doom Eternal just hit game pass and is available for mobile streaming. That is absolutely awesome. This is a game that I play on PC all the time. I had it on Steam, being able to just log on and play here, sadly of course my saves didn't transfer from Steam or Bethesda Net but being able to play on my mobile device and then track and also continue on my PC or my console is truly amazing. Now some of the things about game pass here just talk about it in terms of functionality. You do need a controller. There are some games that use touch inputs but honestly to game any console or PC game you must use a controller. It's only the sensible thing to do and there are multiple controllers to use. What Microsoft has kind of hinted is that if it's a Bluetooth controller it will work with it and that's fine. These are controllers like the SteelSeries Travis Duo work well. The PlayStation DualShock controller will also work with it. The Trusted Xbox One controller will work with that or your Series X controller if you have a Series X but the controllers I do like to use are the ones that have direct USB Type-C input like the GameSar X2 which has a really nice unique slick design, slides out, you put your device in there or the Razer Keysheet which is my favorite controller for this. It really does a fantastic job right here and this is the controller I use for most of the devices because it takes a lot of my devices and speaking of devices you can play on any Android device literally any. I believe from either Android 9 or 10 up I could be wrong but just check the Xbox website for that but as long as the Android device it will play and that's a good thing so it's an Android tablet, Android phone, I was even able to load it on my Nvidia Shield as well. That's something that's pretty cool so it can go anywhere sadly not on iOS devices this little brouhaha because Apple doesn't want streaming game service on their devices yet so we'll see how that clears up but the ability to play on multiple devices gives a strong credence. Now what are the things that I like and I don't like I love the fact that I can jump in and play these games. I love the fact that there are a lot of library of games to play like I just mentioned Bethesda's games that come in there, Fallout 76 is on there, you also have Duty Eternal there will be more games jumping on. I do like the fact that Microsoft has not gone for the crazy 4K they said it's about 720p when they mentioned it at E3 last year and I think it's about 720p and it's fine. It runs well and I like that aspect as long as you have a good connection that's the biggest thing. Having a good internet connection really solves the issue of latency at least for me here. I have noticed some glitches here and there but that's pretty minor. Now have I experienced a good time in my full year running up to now? I would say yes. I've really pushed for it I've shown a lot of people what it can do. I like it. I've actually advanced in some of my games on my mobile devices especially Gears 5. Gears 5 I started on my Xbox then I just kind of stopped and once it was available on XCloud and now on Game Pass I just kept on playing and playing and playing and playing and I like that I could actually do that on my phone. I didn't have to sit down and wait in front of my TV. Now what are the things that they can fix because it's not perfect. It's a great service but it's not perfect. I think one of the very first things is the ability to have instant resume. Now this is something that we are going to have in the series S and series X but the ability to basically fire up a game say on my mobile device and then when I go to my console I can go ahead and continue as fast as possible. That's what I would like to see or being able to go from my console to my device and not have that load time that just says beta right there. Especially when you're moving from console to the mobile device there's just this long load period that kind of annoys me and I think hopefully that gets fixed. Now I also want to see more indie games being pushed to Xbox Game Pass Cloud just because I think it's a good way to add more games like that and some touch input. Yes just so you can help people who don't have control access right there. I think that comes into play. Not every game is going to support that and I get it but some of that. I think overall the service is really good. I think the last thing that I would like to see added to Game Pass as it moves forward Game Pass Cloud is not just being able to stream on my mobile device or my tablet but also being able to have that ability on Windows as well. Especially laptops that are not powerful enough to game on whether it's an ARM chip laptop like the Surface Pro X or even just a basic Intel laptop or even my Samsung TV. Imagine that you can buy a TV in the future. Samsung's a big partner with Microsoft and you've got the Game Pass app right there right there where it says Xbox. You have Game Pass app and you can fire it up by linking your Bluetooth controller or Wi-Fi controller whatever the case may be and you can start gaming on your TV. You don't have to buy an Xbox because it will do 1080p. If you want to have an Xbox for 4K, 8K gaming you can buy that. I would like to see it expand more and I think they're taking that path. So if you've used Game Pass Cloud or Project X Cloud as it was known before what do you think? Let me know how your experience has been. Mine has been pretty good. It's improved over time and I'd like to see it improve more. Otherwise guys those are my thoughts on Game Pass Cloud, 8K, Project X Cloud, my use case in a year. Yeah, it's pretty much been a year. If you have any questions or any comments let me know. Otherwise guys don't forget to like, share, subscribe and if you want any of those controllers I will have the links down for you down below. Be it this bad boy or this bad boy. This is Thundie E. Sane. Thank you very much and always enjoy your entertainments.