{"id":88905,"date":"2026-09-04T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88905"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:39:37","slug":"xboxs-new-tcl-partnership-couldnt-come-at-a-worse-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88905","title":{"rendered":"Xbox\u2019s New TCL Partnership Couldn\u2019t Come At A Worse Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xbox has announced a new partnership with TCL, which will see the Xbox app added to &#8220;select&#8221; models from the brand. This means that owners of those TCL TVs won&#8217;t need to spend $500 on an Xbox Series S or $800 on an Xbox Series X, as they can instead take advantage of the cloud-based gaming features offered as part of a monthly\u00a0Xbox Game Pass subscription&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/game-pass-is-getting-worse-and-more-expensive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">but only for a few hours per month<\/a>, before they need to start coughing up some extra cash to buy more hours to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your TCL TV is supported, all you&#8217;ll need is a Game Pass subscription and an Xbox controller to start playing. Xbox Game Pass also offers a library of games to play, so you&#8217;ll be good to go once you&#8217;re signed up and logged in. As a reminder, you&#8217;ll only get a few hours of cloud streaming depending on which tier of Game Pass you sign up for. The cheapest option, Game Pass Essential, will give you five hours of cloud streaming; Game Pass Premium\u00a0doubles that number to\u00a010 hours, and Game Pass Ultimate caps out at 15 hours. Pricing for top-up cloud streaming packages has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QN1JlrG2esw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox has announced a new partnership with TCL, which will see the Xbox app added to &#8220;select&#8221; models from the brand. This means that owners of those TCL TVs won&#8217;t need to spend $500 on an Xbox Series S or $800 on an Xbox Series X, as they can instead take advantage of the cloud-based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":88907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88908,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88905\/revisions\/88908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}