Now there are about 34 million
Microsoft has long stopped providing data on sales of Xbox consoles and data on the number of users of the Game Pass service. But new information from IGN suggests that there were 33.3 million Game Pass subscribers at the end of 2023
If this data is correct, this would indicate annual growth of 13%, down from 15% a year ago.
At the same time, Microsoft itself can quite honestly declare a significant increase in Game Pass users. The thing is that last year the company renamed the Xbox Live Gold subscription to Xbox Game Pass Core, and now all subscribers of the former are automatically considered Game Pass users, although their subscription does not provide the same access to more than a hundred games. The same 33.3 million discussed above is precisely the data without taking into account Game Pass Core subscribers.
Considering that the game Starfield was released last year, which became the first major Microsoft exclusive in recent years, and the fact that the game sold well on Steam, the results of Game Pass, where the game is available from the day of release, look weak .