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Game Pass is the asset that makes Microsoft successful and gives interest to Xbox consoles, but this strategy could well change. LaPetitePelle illustrates this surprising statement from the representative of the American giant.
For several years now, Microsoft has put the console war aside in order to focus on its various services.. Studio buyouts have multiplied and not the least (hello Activision Blizzard), which demonstrates a real desire to make Xbox Game Pass an essential offer. However, the subscription could arrive elsewhere than on PC and Xbox. In any case, this is what Tim Stuart, financial director of Xbox, suggested during the seventh edition of the Wells Fargo YMT Summit (an annual event organized in the United States). The director said he wanted to make Game Pass accessible on “all screens on which we can play games”. A choice which seems surprising and which he himself considers “a change of strategy”. He says this includes smart TVs, mobile devices, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. A major asset of the company could then land on media previously considered as competitors. A declaration that dates back two months now and at present, we do not know more.
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Xbox Game Pass, a success
The service was officially launched in 2017 but it wasn’t until the following year that it gained momentum. During the month of January 2018, an announcement confirmed the arrival of first-party titles from Microsoft on the first day of release. A first big step forward for the company which will take the offer into a new dimension. The acquisition of big studios changes the situation, for example Bethesda and the possibility of playing big releases like Starfield “day one”. In September 2023, following a leak, information circulated on Twitter that Game Pass would have exceeded 30 million subscribers. Which is plausible when we know that Sony had disclosed the number of 29 million subscribers as part of the Activision Blizzard affair.
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