Here's my quick review of the FireStick 4K plus Game Pass Ultimate cloud streaming. Just got mine yesterday and tested it for a couple of hours on a 4K HDR TV, terrible Australian internet (100 mb/s) and wifi.
It is fantastic. Easy to setup, although the FireStick had to do a number of updates. Connected xbox controller easily. Xbox app works well. Some occasional artefacts and bitrate compression with all games. Some input delay navigating the dashboard (minimal though). And once I'd been using it for an hour I stopped noticing some of these things.
Games played:
Starfield: takes ages to sync data, but once going was very smooth. Minimal input delay and barely noticed it after 5 mins. I got in quite a lot of shootouts to test properly.
Forza Horizon 5: Really smooth, can't say I had any input delay. Looked and felt great.
Lies of P: I'm a souls like fan and have beaten this game twice. If I wasn't currently obsessed with Elden Ring's DLC, I'd do another playthrough of this just by cloud streaming. It ran really well.
Wolfenstein. This was terrible. The only one that had significant lag. Basically unplayable. I'll give it another go to see if it was just a one off random issue.
Halo Infinite: Played straight after Wolfenstein given it's a FPS. It was probably the smoothest. Looked fantastic and ran really well.
Overall, I think this a fantastic option if you're regularly subscribed to Game Pass Ultimate. If MS also add the ability to play your owned games via the cloud, this combo would be a game changer.
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