Xbox Cloud Gaming Now Offers Resolution Options for Select Games

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service is adding new resolution options for select games, with 1440p quality now available for Ultimate subscribers. The Xbox team said this has been a top-requested feature from the community, and it follows the recent streaming quality update that happened when Xbox Cloud Gaming finally dropped its beta tag on October 1st.

“User Selected Resolution allows players to manually choose their preferred streaming resolution before launching a game,” the Xbox team said today. “This ensures players can tailor their subscription to match how and where they play.”

Streaming games at the maximum 1440p quality consumes up to 14GB of data per hour, which is almost three times the amount of data required for streaming games at the base 720p quality. There’s no 4K quality setting yet, and streaming is also limited to 60FPS. In comparison, the Ultimate tier on Nvidia’s rival GeForce Now service can stream games at up to 4K/240FPS.

In addition to these new streaming quality settings, the Xbox team also announced today that India is now the 29th market where Xbox Cloud Gaming is available. The cloud gaming service is also now available on LG TV and Amazon Fire TV devices in Brazil and Argentina, and the Xbox app will also soon support more Fire TV devices, including the Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, the new Vega OS-powered Fire TV Stick 4K Select, and Fire TV 4-Series and Omni QLED smart TVs.

Lastly, the “Stream your own game” collection continues to grow with the addition of over 20 new games, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Cricket 26, Monster Hunter Stories 1 and 2, and WWE 2K25. You just need a base Xbox Game Pass subscription to start streaming supported games on almost any device, and the library now includes over 1,000 cloud-enabled Xbox games.