Project xCloud can be installed on the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, quite easily. But that`s where the fun ends.
It`s been fun playing around with Microsoft`s Project xCloud Xbox Game Streaming, finding our feet, discovering newer, better ways to play. And because it`s on Android, there`s a little bit of flexibility to try it on unsupported devices.
That`s precisely what I`ve done here, for science. Amazon`s Fire TV Stick 4K is inexpensive at $50, a great media streamer and importantly, based on Android. Just Android without the Google bits attached. It`s pretty easy to sideload apps onto a Fire Stick (always done at your own risk), so that`s what I did with xCloud. With a heart full of optimism.
All of which evaporated pretty quickly.
The tiny amount of good
To be clear, while I might have had optimism before starting this, we`re also dealing entirely with an app and service not supported at all on the Fire Stick. Sideloading is fairly easy; you don`t even need to resort to third...
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