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I love mySteam Deck.
But Windows also provides a native use case I simply hadn’t thought of before.
Streaming from my Xbox console is something I just hadn’t considered, weirdly.
Embedded in the Xbox app for Windows is the ability to remote play from your Xbox console.
Just that it’s an incredibly useful feature that had, perhaps foolishly, passed me by.
There’s also a cheaper ROG Ally, of course, and other Windows-based handhelds.
Playing The First Descendant this way on the ROG Ally X has been better than playing it natively.
Can you remote play Xbox on the Steam Deck?
But I don’t want to relinquish what I have now discovered I really enjoy.
So can you do the same somehow on the Steam Deck?
It needs a third-party app, but you can replicate this on the Steam Deck.
It isn’t as slick, it requires a third-party app, and it’s not free, either.
But it’s perfectly possible to do with an app calledXBPlay that’s available to buy through Steam.
In some cases, it’s just better than playing the game locally on a handheld.
I’m a little more open now to the idea of cloud and remote play focused handhelds like the Logitech G Cloud.
It also makes the prospect of an Xbox-branded handheld make a little more sense.
