Microsoft har i løbet af de sidste par år haft stor succes med deres Game Pass-tjeneste, og naturligvis er det sådan med sådan nogle platforme, at jo flere aktive abonnenter der er, desto lettere bliver det for Microsoft at sikre større partnerskaber, der i sidste ende resulterer i flere store spil til platformen.
Så er konkurrerende platforme som Sony og Nintendo interesserede i at give deres brugere adgang til Game Pass? Nej, det er de sjovt nok ikke. I et interview med det tyske medie GameStar fortæller Phil Spencer, at selvom der har været snakke, så er det ikke blevet til noget.
"The thing about other gaming console platforms is we're not able to bring a full Xbox experience on those platforms. In places where we have - like mobile phones, like we're doing now with xCloud coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, what we've done with PC in bringing our full Xbox experience there - because we know when somebody is playing one of our Xbox games, there is an expectation that 'I've got my Xbox Live community, I have my achievements, Game Pass is an option for me, my first-party library is completely there. The other competitive platforms aren't really that interested in having a full Xbox experience on their hardware, but for us, we want to be where gamers want to be and that's the path that we're on."
Tror du at en konkurrent som Sony i sidste ende vil tillade Game Pass på platformen, eller er det simpelthen ikke konkurrencedygtigt?