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Xbox Game Pass hits new major milestone

Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service has been seeing impressive and consistent stable growth. Since its launch back in 2017, the service has gone from strength to strength, adding a plethora of major titles and announcing many partnerships for the service. This has seemingly all paid off, as Game Pass has now officially surpassed 25 million monthly subscribers.

Making the announcement on their blogin the same piece where they revealed that they are buying Activision Blizzard for almost $70 Billion – Microsoft’s Phil Spencer revealed that Xbox Game Pass “now has more than 25 million subscribers.”

Previous official figures put the service at 18 million subscribers back in January 2021, and so bringing that up to 25 million in one year is stable growth. Unfortunately, we already know that this is less than the console manufacturer was hoping for, as back in October we reported that Microsoft had failed to hit its target growth – though it was an ambitious goal.

The final piece of information worth noting is the fact that a slip of the tongue from Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick back in September 2021 claimed that the service had hit 30 million subscribers. While not quite there yet, 25 million is still an impressive figure.

With titles such as the HITMAN Trilogy, Rainbow Six Extraction and more coming to Xbox Game Pass (as well as the recently announced influx of Activision Blizzard titles), it will be interesting to see where the service is one year from now.

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