Xbox Game Pass driving revenue at Microsoft after crossing 18 million subscribers
Xbox Game Pass has amassed over 18 million subscribers, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
The latest milestone means the Netflix-like subscription service which offers access to Xbox Games Studios releases and a selection of third-party titles for a monthly fee has added 3 million users since September 2020, when it boasted 15 million subscribers.
Nadella also indicated that the broader Xbox Live service is in good health, touting 100 million monthly active users across the entire online ecosystem. It s unclear, though, how many of those are Xbox Live Gold subscribers.
That 100 million MAU figure is also useful to keep in mind given Xbox s recent (failed) push to raise prices for Xbox Live Gold s 1 month, 3 month, and 6 month subscription tiers. The price hike was reversed less than a day after its announcement following negative feedback online, though there s no
Showing reverence to the past has not always been the game industry’s best quality. New updates and new systems have long had a tendency to render earlier works obsolete.
So maybe in this pandemic year the annual Game Awards, a life-long labor of love from producer Geoff Keighley, would take a step back and go for a calmer tone?
After all, the show booked Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder to perform the somber “Future Days,” a song featured throughout “The Last of Us Part II.” And with a greater prevalence of real-life celebrities, such as Keanu Reeves, “Tenet” director Christopher Nolan and star John David Washington, “Captain Marvel’s” Brie Larson and even “Wonder Woman’s” Gal Gadot, there was an air of professionalism about the show, even if most everyone was remote.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is headed to Xbox One next summer. The remarkable flight simulator originally launched for Windows PC in August. It will be available for sale, and as part of the Xbox Game Pass program.