Microsoft to Bring All Xbox Games on PC and Activision Blizzard Games to Nvidia GeForce Now - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 February 2023 / 6,037 Views
Microsoft and Nvidia have announced the two companies have signed a 10-year partnership to bring Xbox games on PC to the Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service.
The agreement will enable gamers to stream Xbox games on PC from GeForce Now to PCs, macOS, Chromebooks, smartphones, and more.
If Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal is approved it will bring games from Activision Blizzard to GeForce Now, including Call of Duty.
"Xbox remains committed to giving people more choice and finding ways to expand how people play," said Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. "This partnership will help grow NVIDIA’s catalog of titles to include games like Call of Duty, while giving developers more ways to offer streaming games. We are excited to offer gamers more ways to play the games they love."
Jeff Fisher, senior vice president for GeForce at Nvidia, added, "Combining the incredibly rich catalog of Xbox first party games with GeForce NOW’s high-performance streaming capabilities will propel cloud gaming into a mainstream offering that appeals to gamers at all levels of interest and experience.
"Through this partnership, more of the world’s most popular titles will now be available from the cloud with just a click, playable by millions more gamers."
Microsoft and Nvidia have begun work to integrate Xbox games on PC into GeForce Now, which will allow GeForce Now members stream PC games they purchase on the Windows Store, including third-party partner titles where the publisher has granted streaming rights to Nvidia.
Xbox games on PC available in third-party stores like Steam and the Epic Games Store will be able to stream them through GeForce Now.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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No other console games company comes close to wanting their game to be played as widely as possible, but frauds are selling Xbox as anti-consumer....hahaha.
This deal is backing up what Xbox has said for years. 1st, All xbox games on Steam was one massive example, but now on Geoforce Now.
Corrupt regulators looking worse than ever before.
They don't care about you or any indidual consumer. They care about the money and shareholders. So don't be fooled. This is all business to further strengthen their company, and all they're doing now is to make themselves look good against sony.
Thank you for saving me time by saying that for me.
Man, Phil Spencer and MSFT’s constant PR/politician mode is nauseating. Them trying to constantly appear as the saviors of the video game industry is so ridiculous. Does anyone actually hear when they say these things and think, “man, what a philanthropic company”?
Sony has done and said some cringeworthy things during this deal and otherwise, but I’m at least happy they don’t try to constantly make themselves look like Jesus.
I don't see why a japanese company would want to look like a middle-eastern jewish man who launched a new religion
You bring a valid point to the table.
Dane, I know you really like MSFT, but every single decision they make is for money. Gamepass is a great deal if you like the games on there, but MSFT isn’t making the price so cheap to be kind; they are loss-leading to undercut competition so they can get a ton of subscribers. They’re fighting Sony in a way they know Sony can’t compete: by way of their massive, endless cash reserves. Once they get enough subscribers for Gamepass to be a cash cow, they will price hike—ans everyone does. It’s why my Netflix started at like $8, is now at $21/mo, and will never stop increasing. Foot-in-the-door.
Does it mean Gamepass won’t still be a good deal? No. But the ONLY reason it’s so cheap now is to make more money later. You seem to think that MSFT is everyone’s friend, but they’re as greedy as every other corporation, including Sony.
Not really. I am not a fan of any companies. I only give praises where. Its due and deserving. I actually own all consoles except ps5. Didn't buy that yet as its only god of war ragnarok that I like so far on ps5 and its not justified for one game.
Atm in nz is 20 bucks for ultimate. That's super cheap and even they increased it to 25 nzd down the track, that's still cheap. In nz games cost minum 100 nzd. I have played more then 5 100 games in 1 month. That's why I like gamepass.
Alot of people around the world can't afford buying new games whenever they come out, developers struggle to make it into an already saturated industry. Providing just a platform that satisfies both ends is already a good start. It may not be cheaper. Down the track but hopefully it becomes the norm so that there will be competition and competition will help bring the price down.
Compared to what we have now, u gotts agree that gamepass is the most consumer product that we have this gen. Also ms does have a better track record in sharing games and keeping their promises with games then Sony.
Wow, that's a whole new level of committment
All that green is gunna make a lot of green.
Nice move. GFN is a great service and MS still make the sales. Win win for both.
I don't see why people view this as hurting the xbox name brand. M$ has said before that Xbox is just one of the avenues that they want open for people to play their games. PC gaming vs sitting on a couch (or ground) in front of your TV is a different experience. Much like using your phone (with or without an xbox controller hooked up) is also a different experience. But down the road it will be all the same games. And if your on gamepass its not like you have to purchase the game three different times. Just purchase gamepass and then play on the PC or Xbox or phone/tablet.
Will it hurt sales of the Xbox?? maybe, but maybe in the end it might boost sales even more. The idea is to get more people onto their gamepass/ecosystem. Be it PC/Steam/Geforce/Xbox/Mobile they are all just one of those avenues.
Eventually they’ll be no need to own an Xbox. If they had to either sell off COD or the Xbox division to make the deal go through I wonder what they would choose???
Is Microsoft really trying to phase out their consoles? It seems like they're taking steps to make it more and more irrelevant with all the games available on everything.
Microsoft certainly expected a ton of opposition to this deal. I think everyone is forgetting that this is one of the largest acquisitions in the history of the world. Considering the size, I think it's going pretty smoothly. I'm sure Microsoft is pleased.
My point though is that microsoft was certainly thinking of this stuff before they announced the Activision deal. You're right that they probably wouldn't have made all of these deals if they didn't need to do it to satisfy regulators. But, they had already been supporting Nintendo consoles, releasing on steam, and otherwise trying to get their games playable as many places as reasonably possible. So, I don't think it's fair to say that opposition to this deal has what has caused Microsoft to decide to put their games all over the place. The deal has just caused them to enter into binding contracts to do it. They were largely doing it anyway.
But would MSFT have done these things if their game and console sales were strong? They certainly didn’t do it during the 360 gen when they were beating Sony and selling a lot of hardware and software.
Regardless of the reason, we can safely conclude that the primary motivator was always money, as it is for Sony and Nintendo. Sony and Nintendo do NOT do this, bc they sales are very strong, and they believe the console sales from exclusive games make games remaining exclusive worth it. And their games still sell massively, to boot.
Well everyone has been saying exclusivity sells consoles. But seems so far ms are not allowed to have exclusive games as per the report cause of you know who. They shouldn't have to share as its a competition and Sony needs one for once lol
