r/gaming • u/Force_Hammer • 17h ago

Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming subscribers as costs continue to climb

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-cloud-limits.html
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u/Obscuriosly 17h ago

"We're working to fix that" - Micro$oft probably

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u/RephRayne 16h ago

The next generation of consoles are gonna cost a grand.

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u/Icy-Cod1405 16h ago

Unfortunately that increase tracks with the cost of building a gaming PC now.

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u/Chikitiki90 16h ago

I was curious so I looked up the price of my 1tb Samsung ssd that I bought in 2019 for $163…that same stick costs $430 now! We live in the worst timeline.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 16h ago

Just wait, when AI fails and they need to find something for all those datacenters to do the 15 hour a month premium plan is gonna feel generous.

We're nearing the bottom of the slippery slope that began with horse armor.

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u/EccentricBen 5h ago

Fucking horse armor, the herald of gaming doom, in the worst timeline.

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u/KitaharaKazusa1 6h ago

If AI fails then prices would go down.

AI succeeding is what is making prices go up.

Cloud gaming and LLMs use the exact same resources, so if AI collapses and all the LLMs stop running, there'll be a lot of surplus capacity and they'll have to lower prices to sell it.

On the other hand if LLMs continue to be a thing it will remain difficult to impossible for cloud gaming to be viable.

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u/Strong-Finish5346 9h ago

AI is not going to fail. It's basically a national security issue and the US government will prop up Nvidia and the big players.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 7h ago

Sing it with me now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM

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u/Strong-Finish5346 7h ago edited 7h ago

Sorry, but my money's on the exponentially scaling recursive technology that's already outperforming human cognition in many domains and whose continued development is game-theoretically locked in.

Since /u/SaltyLonghorn blocked me in order to force the last word, let me just say: Zuck's balls taste like money. Should have invested in tech back in 2020, chump.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 7h ago

I can smell Zuckerberg's balls on your breath.

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u/wronguses 9h ago

They're close to that now. 1600-2k is more realistic at this point.

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u/Deathmaw 16h ago

And I'd still pick that over 23 bucks for 15 hours. I'd used that up in 2-3 days. And I'm not going to be paying 230 bucks a month to play how I want.

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u/mitch079 15h ago

I dont see myself bothering to move to it

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u/kkuntdestroyer 14h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they're cheap tbh, sell a cheap console with very low specs that is built for cloud gaming

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u/RephRayne 14h ago

Then you're back to paying $22.99 a month for 15 hours of gaming on something that's a dumb terminal not a console.

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u/kkuntdestroyer 14h ago

I agree, i just wouldn't be surprised. Maybe they release 1 normal console and their new version of an S console is the cloud gaming one

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u/DarthBuzzard 15h ago

PS5 / Xbox Series owners probably won't feel they are missing out anyway since the next-gen leap is going to be tiny and there will probably never be a PS6 / Next Xbox exclusive because the ROI won't be there on a small userbase and all games will have to be compatible with the handheld versions.

I also highly doubt there will be any new marketable features. This gen gave us DuelSense, 3D audio, and SSDs but there are no comparable leaps left for them to try next gen.

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u/nezroy 14h ago

There also just won't BE a next generation of XBox.

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u/adarion29 16h ago

Your subscription service got an "upgrade"

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u/Golden-trichomes 11h ago

Upgradde with two d’s

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u/Repulsive_Recursive 13h ago

"we heard the community"