One of the biggest franchises in the gaming industry seems to be coming to Xbox Game Pass. This was actually confirmed by the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer, who said that they plan to add all the games of the newly acquired companies to the subscription.
We plan to have the full portfolio of games from ZeniMax, Activision Blizzard and Xbox Game Studios on Game Pass on day one.
Although Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023, Activision Blizzard games have not yet been added to the subscription service. After the acquisition, Spencer explained that the delay in adding games to Xbox Game Pass was because there was a lot of work to be done to integrate teams and technologies, which was easier to do with ZeniMax Media, which Microsoft acquired in March 2021, because the merger process has been much more defined throughout, reports Windows Central.
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When are Activision Blizzard games coming to Xbox Game Pass?
While there’s no roadmap for when each Activision Blizzard game will arrive on Xbox Game Pass, the rollout will begin next month, with Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 4 arriving on console and PC on March 28, 2024.
Is Xbox ditching discs?
We support physical media, but we don’t need to do so out of proportion to consumer demand. We deliver games on physical and digital media, and we just follow what customers are doing. And I think our job in managing Xbox is to deliver what the majority of customers want. And now most of our customers buy games digitally.
But I will say that our strategy depends on people going digital. And getting rid of physical media is not a strategic task for us.
Spencer says.
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