Microsoft is adapting its Xbox Cloud Gaming Service to the keyboard and mouse operation feature. Players will be able to play Xbox platformer games through cloud gaming with a new way of playing. Accessibility features on Windows and MacOS can also be optimized as a result.
The predecessor of Xbox Cloud Games is Xbox Project xCloud, which has been moving forward since the opening of beta in 2019, with native apps on Android and web apps on iOS and computers. At the end of 2021, Microsoft also announced that Xbox consoles will support cloud gaming, allowing Xbox Series X|S exclusive games such as Microsoft Flight Simulation to run on the previous generation of Xbox One consoles. Jorg Neumann, director of development for Microsoft Flight Simulation, revealed that Microsoft is now adding keyboard and mouse support to some games.
Neumann revealed in a recent community Q&A: "Our next step is to provide keyboard and mouse support. This is platform-level support, so we don't need to do anything specifically either. Keyboard and Mouse is a great fit for our simulation game, so the platform team is working on a solution. I don't have a specific date here, because it's up to the platform team to decide. I don't know their progress either, but there will be. "While Microsoft Flight Simulator can be played with keyboards and mice on PCs and Xbox consoles, it can only be played using an Xbox gamepad for the time being in cloud game streaming.
Keyboard and mouse operations provide a whole new option for cloud gaming. At present, Microsoft Cloud Games, like native mobile games, has also tested gyroscope inputs to add touch screen and custom virtual gamepad controls to the game. For web-based cloud services, supporting key and mouse operations is certainly good news, and PC players do not have to purchase special controllers when they experience.
Neumann also previously revealed that Microsoft Flight Simulator will add touchscreen control and expressed interest in gyroscope control. While it's not known when these features will be released, the team expects it to be completed in the first half of 2022.