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/SmiggleMcJiggle Xbox 16h ago

For now

Sony likes to copy Xbox’s business models: paid online play, gamepass equivalent etc

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u/Vanlande 15h ago

Except the good stuff like the rewards program. They ditched PS stars a year ago and still nothing. Xbox has their rewards still

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u/theycmeroll 13h ago

For now, they gimp it further and further every chance they get

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u/Warlordnipple 11h ago

Eventually they will hemmorage enough people that everyone will play on steam and they will just sue steam for a share of the profits their incompetency created.

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 12h ago

But they killed Games with Gold

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u/fucuasshole2 12h ago

It’s being gutted slowly and points are more and more to redeem

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u/Dave3087 16h ago edited 47m ago

First, Sony will use Microsoft’s misstep to market their unlimited plan… then a few months later they will do it themselves.

Much like Apple and Samsung.

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u/LazyassMadman 5h ago

RIP headphone jacks :(

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u/RockinMadRiot 16h ago

But this one will be a win for sony after the disk stuff. They are only offering it to premium, I believe.

Xbox should do the same.

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u/Googoo123450 16h ago

The disk stuff is going to be so short lived for Xbox. They absolutely will do away with disks and this feature to turn your disks to digital is literally going to be so that you can play your old games on the new console. They're just scared to announce it yet because of the backlash Sony is getting for it. Oh, and stand by for Sony to also announce the ability to digitize your dicksc library because no one would be happy if they couldn't play their PS5 games on the PS6. This is just how enshitification works.

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u/Anubra_Khan 14h ago

Sony started the streaming service. Game Pass copied it.

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u/scrandlle 13h ago

Sony doesn't even have cloud gaming do they? They have console streaming but that's not cloud gaming

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u/RockinMadRiot 12h ago

Yes, they do with the premium service.

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u/Omen_20 PlayStation 12h ago

They do. Remote Play has been around for decades now, but their Cloud Streaming started on PS4 with PlayStation Now. They have a newer service which is part of PS Plus. 

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u/DiggThatFunk 16h ago

I dunno, limiting cloud streaming time seems antithetical to what Sony is currently trying to do with their "mobile console" idea in the Portal

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u/RockinMadRiot 16h ago

Plus it's limited to a tier, not everyone

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u/Wraithfighter 14h ago

The product has to make money eventually, though. Unlimited usage of a power-hungry program at a monthly rate is just not sustainable, its a question of when and how much Sony eventually limits it, not if.

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u/RockinMadRiot 14h ago

Depends on their set up though.

Sony saying about disks means they were gearing up for cloud gaming so they might forseen this

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u/Northern23 16h ago

Got a Portal recently and was surprised to find out I can't stream on it while playing on the PS5 using the same account and can only stream with main account on Portal.

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u/FantasmaDelMar 15h ago

Who’s playing the PS5 in this scenario? Are you sharing your account with someone?

If the second person creates a local account on the PS5, they should be able to use that at the same time.

I’ve been streaming Big Walk on my portal with my son hosting the game on the PS5 under his local account, and it’s been working great. I got the game under my account and PS Plus subscription, and we can both play it simultaneously.

Maybe there are other barriers in your situation, but I wonder if you’d be able to make it work somehow.

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u/Northern23 14h ago

Both are being used at home, sometimes at same time. Opening a 2nd account is what I was trying to do but game saves can't be copied over to other accounts, or moved between them. I guess the account will have to start from scratch. Will try again other stuff and see what works best

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u/ki11bunny 14h ago

They are both just copying nvidia at this point

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u/BushTamer 13h ago

cuz sony knows no one will switch once xbox does it

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u/Ice_Cream_Killer 11h ago

What a crock of shite.😂 There is so much wrong with your statement... just revisionist history or straight up lies, lol.

Xbox copied Sony with '"Games with Gold" AFTER Playstation already had PS Plus now on the PS3. Sony then expanded the benefits of the service on the PS4 by allowing you to stream games from the cloud after they bought Gaikai. Xbox copied it by creating Gamepass to give players access to brand new games to stream instead of previous gen games like Sony. Microsoft was trying to position itself as a more premium service by offering current gen games. Playstation rebranded PS now into Ps Plus by breaking it into tiers and named them Essential, Extra and Premium that gave you access to a library of PS4 games. Then Microsoft copied AGAIN by creating tiers like Essential, Premium and Ultimate. They realized Playstation didnt paywall Free2play games and copies that too.

This idea that Sony copied Microsoft business models for Xbox is delusional. No doubt they copied paying for online gaming though. That was a no brainer. Xbox gamers allowed Microsoft to get away with it, so Sony and Nintendo followed.

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u/ThanatosIdle 2h ago

Microsoft did it too early. Sony was probably going to wait until they got rid of the discs before pulling this.

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u/Driftysilver 16h ago

Lol yeah, for now...