Microsoft plans to bring many more games to Xbox Cloud Gaming later this year, allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to share most of their own game library. “We are excited to share that later this year, our intention is to introduce the ability for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from the cloud, choose games they already own or have purchased outside the Xbox Game Pass library,” said Will. Tuttle, Editor-in-Chief of Xbox Wire.
This extension will make Xbox Cloud Gaming much more valuable, opening up the service to potentially thousands more games. Microsoft only says “choose games,” so it’s clear that not every Xbox game will be available, and the company says nothing more about its plans. But it seems to be intended to cover most of the games you already have in your library.
Microsoft has promised this for 2020
Microsoft initially promised to extend Xbox Cloud Gaming streaming to a full library of games as early as 2020, but that never happened. “In 2020, we will enable gamers to stream from the Xbox cloud games they already own or purchase,” said Project xCloud head Karim Chowdhry in November 2019.
Extending Xbox Cloud Gaming beyond just Game Pass is part of a broader Microsoft Xbox Everywhere initiative that the company is showcasing further this week. Xbox Cloud Gaming is also arriving in Argentina and New Zealand today, and an Xbox TV app will appear on Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs later this month. Microsoft is also detailing its plans for Project Moorcroft to soon bring demonstrations of E3-like games to the Xbox Game Pass.
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