Microsoft rolled out the beta earlier this year and has been slowly inviting more and more players to try it out through the fall. The other is xCloud, the company’s video game streaming service. Game Pass for PC, which is still in beta, is just one of the ways Microsoft has liberated the Xbox One experience from the physical hardware that enables it.
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Games like Metro Exodus and Stellaris are available to play through Game Pass on both console or PC and some, like Gears 5, support Play Anywhere, allowing players to share their progress back and forth between PC and Xbox One. This year Microsoft also extended the service to PC games on Windows and bundled it with Xbox Live Gold at $15.95 a month. This year continued that trend with both Crackdown 3 and Gears 5 and also saw more third-party games come to the service day and date like Outer Wilds and Blair Witch.
It did that by building out the service’s library with great games both big and small, including new Microsoft-published games as they were released. Last year, Microsoft transformed Game Pass from a pricey way to play old games into arguably the best subscription in video games. It’s Getting Bigger And Better All The Time In 2019 Microsoft has repackaged a version of that future as its budget console tier following the phase out of new Xbox One base models.Īnd it’s a good deal, not because always online requirements doesn’t still leave a bad taste in people’s mouths but because Microsoft has made the medicine optional and sweetened it with cheap access to a large backlog of games with Game Pass. The pitch is: who needs an optical drive to play new or used games when you have access to over 100 digital ones on Game Pass? Prior to the Xbox One’s launch in 2013, Microsoft announced it was reversing course and wouldn’t make the console require players to go online at least once every 24 hours or put DRM in place to restrict second-hand game use.
Prioritising these services over the hardware that supports them is in keeping with Microsoft’s announcement earlier this year of the Xbox One S All Digital, a disc-less version of the console which lowers the barrier of entry for console gaming.
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