New xbox app update just landed on iOS that allows you to stream your game from your console remotely.
I guess this usurps OneCast. The word remotely is interesting though, as to me, it suggests you donāt need to be confined to your local network to play. How well this would work in theory though remains to be seen.
EDIT
Just briefly tested this on my iPhone using 4G. It works remotely as they describe, once your console has been set up for game streaming. It works surprisingly well too, despite being on 4G, and my console being connected to my router via WiFi. There were some visual issues from time to time with rendering, but input latency was minimal, and frame rate was as smooth as you would expect. There was a constant annoying audio interference for the duration of my test though.
I presume this is the localised private cloud version of Xcloud that Microsoft announced alongside xcloud a few years back where they promised to allow you to stream remotely from your own personal console and library. Itās pretty neat. Definitely feels beta-ish, but itās hard to say if the issues were down to me being on WiFi, as the audio issues persisted within my local network too, and I constantly had a pop up saying there was network interference. I suspect the audio issues are more likely a bug, given that OneCast doesnāt suffer from them despite the same network conditions.
Very impressed so far.
Yep just super briefly tested this too. Framerate wasnāt perfect but very impressive.
My understanding from what Iāve read is that there is āconsole streamingā and āxcloudā now.
So this imo is superior in terms of giving you access to all games you own and have via gamepass etc, while xcloud could perhaps have the upper hand for streaming speeds as it wouldnāt have to come from my Xbox first, but just straight down from Microsoftās servers(?).
Buzzed to have this and start using it properly on phone and iPad.
The Razer Kishi is available for iPhone now too: https://www.razer.com/gb-en/mobile-controllers/Razer-Kishi/RZ06-03360100-R3M1
The whole interview with Ben Thompson on Stratechery is worth a read / listen if youāre a subscriber.
They really do seem focussed on the customer experience and fitting Xbox around how they want to play games.
Microsoft have stock of the series S if anyone needs
Iāll have a read and watch of these later. Should hopefully help me to decide if I should keep my series S pre order or cancel. Some of the stuff coming out from game developers suggest itās not powerful enough to hit the frame rate targets or ray tracing.
I donāt personally care about 4K, or 8K gaming. But the rest matters to me.
What games are people buying?
Iām probably only going to buy one for now, I was leaning towards COD but now thinking about Cyberpunk.
Completely forgot about my pre-order for Watch Dogs Legion, which I discovered was installed and ready to play last Friday. Crashes a lot, and havenāt been able to play it much, so that will probably be my first new game experience on the new console.
Iāve got destiny 2 beyond light pre ordered too, which releases on the same day as the console.
Iām not too sure on Cyberpunk. CDPR get a lot of praise, and seem to be industry darlings, but Iāve never found myself particularly interested in their games, and didnāt enjoy the little bits Iāve played, and itās the same with Cyberpunk for me. Doesnāt appeal to, care little for it, and probably wonāt enjoy it. Iāll do what I did with Witcher, and wait until its on gamepass to try it when thereās a drought of games.
Oh never mind. Just received an email from Smyths to say my xbox has been dispatched, then a following email from DPD to say itāll be delivered on November 9th.
Can always return it. 
Edit: 60FPS at 1080p on both Sea of Thieves and Destiny 2 sound far more promising than what Iāve been hearing elsewhere for third party titles. This is pretty much all I need and want along with the faster loading times, so I should be quite happy with a series S.
9th?!
Yep! Only one courier delivers in my area, so everything gets handed off to them regardless of which courier the store dispatches with. (Except Royal Mail). They have no problem breaking the street date if they get it early enough, weather permitting though, as storms can cause significant disruptions here.
Both a blessing and a curse to live in the Scottish highlands.
If it ever shipsā¦
Iāve got Watch_Dogs Legion on the go at the moment, which is Series X optimised. However, I missed the boat on pre-orders and will have to wait for the stock situation to improve.
As for what to get next, Iād like to say Cyberpunk, but Iām not going to pin hopes on that releasing until it does. I may just sign up for GamePass again and try a few out.
I didnāt realise it didnāt have a release date!
Now moving on to Watchdogs. I like it when itās a city thatās real so you can explore the places you know. That might have jumped up the list!
It has a ārelease dateāā¦the trouble is that it has had several already. Theyāre just notional release dates at this point.
It appears my Xbox Series S has just been delivered!
Canāt wait to get home and set up. Hopefully thereās an easy way to transfer my games across and download any series S optimisations separately. Donāt fancy the prospect of downloading all of my games again.
The question isā¦ vertical or horizontal? Iāve been flipping back and forth over which orientation Iāll have it in, but currently leaning towards vertical.
I canāt believe youāve got it early!
Mine will be going horizontally purely because it wonāt fit in the cabinet if I stand it up, I do prefer it vertically for aesthetic reasons.
Watchdogs turned up today, so Iāll be playing that tomorrow. Went for the disc version like Iām from the 90s just incase it sits gathering dust and I can sell it.
Iām p sure you can transfer them across your local network from your old to the new, so no need to download all over again.
Iām very happy and a little bit smug right now. This never happens to me. And now living in a remote area I never thought it would! But Smyths it would seem messed up and dispatched my console much earlier than they were supposed to!
Iāve gone with vertical, looks much nicer in my opinion with the vent on display.
I hope you enjoy!
For me itās by far the weakest entry in the series. The play as anyone mechanic is a cool gimmick but wore off fast for me, and I didnāt like there not being a central character for the story to focus on, as none of my recruits really felt like the hero at the center of the story. I also feel like the games have deterred too far from what made the initial concept so great.
The hacking and gunplay feel so bare bones now that they might as well not exist at all. The first game really got the balance of both right. Much more variety and utility to the hacks you could use, and more varied gun play action that felt like you were an epic hit man. Think John Reese from Person of Interest, or John Wick from John Wick (why is every badass person in western entertainment named John?!)
In this game they just want you to be a spider robot all the time tasering people like a face hugger from alien. Itās cool, but I miss the old game play.
Yep! Thanks! Was a pretty seamless experience, and probably the best set up and on boarding experience ever from Xbox. Nicely polished.