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Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription service for games, has 34 million subscribers as of February 2024. Microsoft revealed the number in a where it shared its plan about the future of the Xbox business.
The latest number reveals that Game Pass growth has slowed down drastically. It took Microsoft three years since Game Pass launched in 2017 to get to subscribers in April 2020. In the next five months, the company five million subscribers, and hit subscribers by January 2021, a growth rate of nearly 90 percent per year. A year later, the company announced that Game Pass had subscribers. Over the last two years, Game Pass has added nine million subscribers, which would be an average annual increase of just 18 percent.
Game Pass lets players pay a monthly fee to Microsoft for unlimited access to an evolving library of games that they can play on their consoles or PCs. In an announcement on Thursday, the brand’s leaders to bring Xbox games to more platforms including the PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch, both of which have far more users than Xbox. There are currently no plans to offer Game Pass on either Sony or Nintendo's platforms.
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The latest number reveals that Game Pass growth has slowed down drastically. It took Microsoft three years since Game Pass launched in 2017 to get to subscribers in April 2020. In the next five months, the company five million subscribers, and hit subscribers by January 2021, a growth rate of nearly 90 percent per year. A year later, the company announced that Game Pass had subscribers. Over the last two years, Game Pass has added nine million subscribers, which would be an average annual increase of just 18 percent.
Game Pass lets players pay a monthly fee to Microsoft for unlimited access to an evolving library of games that they can play on their consoles or PCs. In an announcement on Thursday, the brand’s leaders to bring Xbox games to more platforms including the PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch, both of which have far more users than Xbox. There are currently no plans to offer Game Pass on either Sony or Nintendo's platforms.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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