Xbox Game Pass: Viability and cloud gaming, Phil Spencer speaks again on the subscription

Game news Xbox Game Pass: Viability and cloud gaming, Phil Spencer speaks again on the subscription

Phil Spencer confident about the future of Game Pass

When the Game Pass arrived in 2017, the proposal was surprising. How could such a service, namely a low cost subscription work in such a competitive industry, and where game sales are essential to the continuation of the business? Now well installed, welcomed by the studios participating in the initiative, and placed at the heart of the development strategy of the Xbox brand, the service has only been enriched with games and features. The Game Pass is now available on PC, on Xbox consoles, but also on smartphones via Cloud Gaming and the Game Pass Ultimate offer.

But when we learn that, according to the analyzes, it is not progressing as quickly as expected, we wonder if, internally, we do not question its viability. If we are to believe Phil Spencer’s statements, this is not the case at all:

I know a lot of people like to write that we waste money on very little. But no. The Game Pass in its current form is very, very viable. And it continues to grow.

Cloud Gaming as a lever for growth

This growth would also go through cloud gaming according to Phil Spencer, who hopes that the accessibility afforded by the latter will one day reach nearly 3 billion players worldwide. The technology, which makes it possible to play without having to install the games on its own devices with a good connection to the Internet, is increasingly democratized. First launched on mobile devices, Xbox Cloud Gaming is now usable on browser, and will support Xbox One very soon. But for Phil Spencer, it’s on mobile you will find most of the community Xbox in the coming years:

At some point, more people are going to be part of the Xbox community on mobile than on any other device, simply because of the number of smartphones out there.