Microsoft plans to bring many more games to Xbox Cloud Gaming later this year, allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play most of their own game library. “We are pleased to share that by the end of this year, our intention is to deploy the possibility for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play, from the cloud, selected games that they already have or have purchased outside of the Xbox library. Game Pass, ”he says. Will Tuttle, editor-in-chief of Xbox Wire.
This expansion will make Xbox Cloud Gaming much more valuable, opening up the service to thousands more games. Microsoft only says “selected games,” so it’s clear that not all Xbox games will be available, and the company says nothing more about its plans. But it seems that the intention is to cover most of the games you already have in your library.
Microsoft had promised it by 2020
Microsoft had initially promised to expand its streaming of Xbox Cloud Gaming to a full library of games by 2020, but it never happened. “In 2020, we will allow players to play Xbox games that they already own or buy from the cloud,” Project xCloud chief Kareem Choudhry said in November 2019.
The expansion of Xbox Cloud Gaming beyond Game Pass games is part of Microsoft Xbox Everywhere’s broader initiative that the company is demonstrating this week. Xbox Cloud Gaming is also coming to Argentina and New Zealand today, and an Xbox TV app will appear on Samsung 2022 smart TVs later this month. Microsoft is also detailing its plans for Project Moorcroft to soon bring E3-like game demos to the Xbox Game Pass.