An announcement that has the gift of pulling the rug from under Nvidia’s feet, whose GeForce Now platform is already running Fortnite on mobile but only in closed beta for the moment. Not to mention the palpable joy of Tim Sweeney, very happy to take this opportunity to taunt Apple, which removed the game from its App Store for well-documented reasons. For throwing Fortnite on the Microsoft cloud, just go here without any prior installation and log in with your Microsoft account. The title is compatible with controllers or with touch controls.
This partnership with Epic Games comes shortly after the announcement of a figure revealed by Microsoft: to date, more than 10 million people have tried one of the 350 Xbox Cloud Gaming compatible games as part of their Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. A total of 26 countries are currently affected by Xbox Cloud Gaming and therefore by the reinforcement of Fortnite. Xbox Cloud Gaming recently opened up in Mexico, Japan, Australia and Brazil, with the latter showing particularly encouraging results, Microsoft tells us.
In addition to promising the appearance of other free-to-play in the future on its cloud, Microsoft’s press release reveals that Microsoft Flight Simulator was the most played Xbox Cloud Gaming title of March on phones, tablets, PCs and consoles. Recall that the cloud power notably allows the very demanding Asobo Studio game to be accessible from a machine like the Xbox One.
“Adding a free-to-play title to our cloud gaming catalog is an important step for us. Fortnite is just the beginning, in the future we’ll be looking to add more free titles, titles you love. At Xbox, we want to make gaming accessible to the world’s 3 billion gamers, and the cloud has an important role to play in that mission. We just want you to have a choice, both in what titles you play and how you play them.“, can we read.