Recreation Move, Microsoft’s subscription service for video games, has 34 million subscribers as of February 2024. Microsoft revealed the quantity in a weblog put up the place it shared its plan about the way forward for the Xbox enterprise.
The newest quantity reveals that Recreation Move development has slowed down drastically. It took Microsoft three years since Recreation Move launched in 2017 to get to 10 million subscribers in April 2020. Within the subsequent 5 months, the corporate added 5 million subscribers, and hit 18 million subscribers by January 2021, a development price of almost 90 p.c per yr. A yr later, the corporate introduced that Recreation Move had 25 million subscribers. Over the past two years, Recreation Move has added 9 million subscribers, which might be a mean annual improve of simply 18 p.c.
Recreation Move lets gamers pay a month-to-month charge to Microsoft for limitless entry to an evolving library of video games that they’ll play on their consoles or PCs. In an announcement on Thursday, the model’s leaders revealed plans to convey Xbox video games to extra platforms together with the PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Change, each of which have much more customers than Xbox. There are at present no plans to supply Recreation Move on both Sony or Nintendo’s platforms.