Good day. Wasn’t really sure which to post this is cuz its a mix of a few.
I have the SteamDeck, ps5, switch and was looking into either getting the ROG Ally or just a Xbox series S. Only reason id be using the ally is for Xbox game pass as the SteamDeck does everything for me perfectly with my gaming style and ps remote play and cloud streaming works perfectly.
My question is, how good does the xbplay app work? I was looking into just getting a series S for game pass, installing the games and just using xbplay to remote into playing them via my SteamDeck as it allows you to play off your wifi as well.
Would this be similar to just using a ally with xgames downloaded or would there be a big jump in difference? My wifi is pretty good. I’m not super picky over the best graphics but the price difference has me thinking and series S doesn’t require the tweaking of games to work like I heard the ally does.
The ally currently is $899CAD But on sale for $699CAD and the Xbox series S carbon is $449. It could save me over $250 if I remote play into it. (The Lgo is $949 Cad so that’s out the picture)
Any advice?
Why not stream to the deck with xcloud? I use that now for Xbox games so I don’t have to buy the system. Or use Nvidia GeForce now to stream gamepass to the deck with better quality but would need to pay extra per month for GeForce
It works really well, better than the solution Microsoft put out. It also gives you an option add individual games to steam so you can click them and launch right into it. Works nicely for local streaming from your Xbox too if you have one. For the small cost I’d say it’s the best solution for cloud and remote play on the deck.
In regards to streaming from your Xbox, did you change any of the settings on Xbplay? Sharpeners, codecs, bitrate, etc?