Vodafone and Microsoft have entered a technical partnership focused on optimizing mobile gaming technology in the U.K. As part of the arrangement, Vodafone customers will have the opportunity to be amongst the first to preview Project xCloud, Microsoft’s new game-streaming technology, over the operator’s 5G and 4G networks.
At $70.3 billion, the mobile gaming industry accounts for more than half of all global gaming revenue in 2018, and with 5G promising to deliver the low latency and high-speed connectivity required for better mobile cloud gaming experiences, while also making it possible for carriers to meet the growing data demands from gaming platform subscribers, the mobile gaming industry is on the brink of an explosion.
