We tried xCloud on the Fire TV Stick 4K so you don't have to suffer

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...