Xbox's Cloud Gaming and remote play services are seeing excessively long load times as holiday demand hits servers.

Xbox Cloud Gaming, the service that lets gamers play Xbox games on phones, tablets and other devices, has been down since Thursday, according to the official Xbox Support Twitter account. It does appear that the service is slowly coming back on, but it's not at 100% yet.

Even if it wasn’t the strongest year for Xbox exclusive games (and some of those exclusives had their issues), Game Pass was still an extremely good deal for console owners. Mostly, it’s the variety;