Microsoft is planning to carry PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service. Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator expertise, introduced the transfer at a non-public Xbox media briefing in Los Angeles on Sunday. “You will be able to play your PC Game Pass catalog on all the devices supported by Nvidia GeForce Now,” mentioned Bond.
“This will enable the PC Game Pass catalog to be played on any device that GeForce Now streams to, like low spec PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, mobile devices, TVs, and more, and we’ll be rolling this out in the months ahead,” says Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire editor in chief, in a blog post.
GeForce Now members might be in a position to “stream select PC games from the library,” so it doesn’t appear to be will probably be the total catalog. Either manner, this is a giant deal for cloud gaming, permitting PC Game Pass subscribers to use Nvidia’s superior sport streaming service with RTX 4080 ranges of efficiency. In our personal testing we discovered the RTX 4080 tier of GeForce Now was far superior to Microsoft’s personal Xbox Cloud Gaming providing for efficiency and latency.
It additionally implies that Microsoft’s promised Microsoft Store help for GeForce Now goes past simply your purchases and extends to the PC Game Pass subscription. Nvidia has beforehand mentioned help for the Microsoft Store on GeForce Now will “become available in the coming months,” so we’d not have to wait too lengthy to see PC Game Pass on GeForce Now.
All of this work is a part of a recent partnership between Microsoft and Nvidia that sees Xbox PC video games come to GeForce Now. Microsoft struck a 10-year settlement with Nvidia earlier this 12 months to license Xbox PC video games to GeForce Now as a part of a broader effort to appease regulators over its proposed Activision Blizzard deal. The deal additionally contains entry to Activision Blizzard titles if Microsoft’s proposed acquisition is authorised by regulators.
UK regulators have blocked the deal over cloud competitors issues, regardless of Microsoft’s 10-year offers with a number of cloud gaming rivals. Now Microsoft is providing its PC Game Pass subscription on a rival cloud gaming service, in a shock transfer which will assist it persuade regulators over its proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition.
