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Source: Thurrott, Xbox Wire
Here are some of the highlights.
Xbox Game Pass
Here are some of the highlights.
Xbox Game Pass
- Microsoft added 116 additional game titles to its Xbox Game Pass subscription.
- There are now over 65 game makers participating in Xbox Game Pass.
- 17 games launched day and date in Xbox Game Pass
- Microsoft acquired or otherwise brought seven game studios in-house in 2018, including Playground Games, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, InXile Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment, and The Initiative
- In 2018, the firm added over 100 new titles to Backward Compatibility, bringing the catalog to over 550 games.
- 57 of them are specifically Xbox One X Enhanced.
- Microsoft’s indie game developer program saw its 100th title published in 2018.
- Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing ID@Xbox games last year.
- Microsoft teamed with Epic to provide cross-network play in Fornite, which impacted almost 80 million gamers.
- Microsoft teamed with Nintendo last year to bring Minecraft cross-play to Nintendo Switch, Windows 10, Xbox One, and mobile. This community boasts over 90 million players.
- Forza Horizon 4 is the highest-rated Xbox exclusive of this generation (meaning both Xbox One and Windows 10).
- Sea of Thieves was the first Microsoft Studios title to launch day and date in both Xbox Game Pass and retail.
- Microsoft says it was the fastest-selling new Xbox intellectual property of the generation.
- Microsoft’s gameplay streaming platform [...]saw its active monthly users jump from 10 million in January to over 20 million [six months later].
- Releases of Crackdown 3, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Gears of War 5, Gears Pop!, and Minecraft: Dungeons.
- "The Arena" an all-new competitive game mode content update for Sea of Thieves in early 2019.
- ID@Xbox titles like The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti, Tunic and ATLAS