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Xbox Game Pass Now Reported To Sit At 18 Million Subscribers

In the past couple of months, Microsoft’s latest initiative to bring a service entirely stocked in video games for its Xbox platform has been marked to being one of the high points for the firm during the Xbox One era. In April 2020, Microsoft issued that Xbox Game Pass already surpassed 10 million active users since the installation of the service in 2017.

But while the service climbed to its position in the two-year span, the number of users grew dramatically in the following months. By September 2020, the headcount for Xbox Game Pass subscribers swelled by 50 percent landing the service with 15 million users. And that number was expected to face another boost in users with the new console generation a few months ahead.

Now according to The Verge’s Tom Warren following the recent quarterly financial report for Microsoft, it is reported that Xbox Game Pass now overtook 18 million users.

Going by Warren’s metrics, Xbox Game Pass is said to generate roughly one million new subscriptions each month. Even more, if Xbox Game Pass continues this streak entering 2021, the service is projected to face the 30 million milestone by the year’s end. Warren comments on how performance would have differed if Halo Infinite shipped in November – insinuating that the number could be higher with more first-party releases from Microsoft.

Overall, Xbox Game Pass did result with impressive growth for Microsoft in its gaming division. In the recent Fy21 Q2 report issued on Tuesday, Microsoft reveals that revenue for Xbox content and services also expanded by 40 percent as a direct response to Xbox Game Pass and first-party releases.

It is certain that Microsoft plans to further growth for Xbox Game Pass through other means. The market did witness Microsoft’s attempt with a price hike for Xbox Live, but the decision fell flat fairly quickly as the firm retracted the move and even announced free-to-play titles will not require the online service later this year. You can read the full report by heading here.

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