Xbox Game Pass has grown every year since it was first launched in 2017, and it looks like the service gained a very large number of subscribers last month. Thanks to a new career update from Xbox Marketing Executive Craig McNary, we now know The service has exceeded 30 million users In August 2023.
In a summary of McNary’s previous role at Microsoft, which ended last month, the executive says he “launched and expanded Xbox Game Pass, the gaming subscription service.” No. 1 in the worldto over 30 million members” — along with many other people at Microsoft, of course.
Late last year, thanks to an update from Sony during its battle with Xbox over the ActiBlizz deal, we learned that the service had 29 million users as of November 2022. Those numbers certainly line up with that, so this new LinkedIn update seems accurate so far. As we can tell.
But the new number Excludes basic Xbox Game Pass members, which will likely be included in the total number of subscribers in the near future. Remember, all current Xbox Live Gold members will automatically be upgraded to the Game Pass Core tier – a new entry-level option that launched yesterday.
The Xbox CEO has now removed the Xbox Game Pass portion of his LinkedIn profile (that was fast!), so it’s worth considering the “30 million members” quote as a rumor at the moment.
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