The Xbox Pass Game Pass is ready to start

I just finished looking at the Xbox 2025 Developer Direct presentation and it seems to me that the Game Pass is strongly positioned for a welcome revival-and maybe long late.

During the video of an hour earlier today, Microsoft displayed a small piece of studios and games currently cooking: Team Ninja/Platinumgames and Ninja Gaiden 4software ID and Doom: The Dark AgesMandatory games and South of midnight (Surely my choice of show) and Sandfall Interactive and his surreal RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Moreover, a new Remaster was announced, Ninja Gaiden 2 blackAnd in fact it is available to be played now in the Game Pass. Everyone likes a good drop in shade.

Speaking of the highly controversial subscription service, all of the above games are supposed to be on the first day of Game Pass, and the general ‘first day’ is shocking for many of these titles. South of midnight published on April 8, 2025 while Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Starts soon on April 24. Most recent Punishment The installment comes a month later with a publication on May 15. We will not see Ninja Gaiden 4 Until the fall of 2025, but including the usual group of unannounced tissue and precious stones of the posterior catalog that will probably be added to the service, this spring will be full for Xbox fans. However, the boy is a strange time to be a player in Microsoft camp.

This next barrage of AAA Xbox titles comes in an uncertain moment for the owners of the X | s series. Microsoft’s latest campaign ‘This is an Xbox’ apparently betrays the company’s large hardware base in favor of setting Xbox games with processor and screen, including laptops, tablets, phones, PS5, Switch. And the smart refrigerator of your aunt Gemma, for sure. Cloud games are fantastic and the future, in my modest opinion, but here is the gloomy reality: according to Microsoft’s marketing, you don’t need an Xbox to play these future games. You only need a game pass and a somewhat capable calculator Texas Instruments, I would collect.

It seems that the message has been heard loud and clear, as xbox sales reflect a constant declining console exclusivity for virtually all heavy IP attackers moving forward, perhaps even including including Halo AND Main collection. It seems that we are approaching rapidly an era where the previous exclusive Xbox games charm all the main platforms, and while I do not have a problem with this in terms of basic accessibility, it somehow deals the xbox hardware balloon and where it does Does this leave those of us who have invested a lot in the platform? Who knows.

Maybe the rumored hand device will eventually offer a very necessary helium value, but I can’t understand how or why Microsoft will continue to produce its own hardware, although the next keyboard – according to the supposed flows – is supposed to come in 2026. The internal estimate it is not Question, however, are all these new games we will get starting in April. Even earlier, too, with such things Was accepted In February. The promising formation can be potentially sufficient to seduce the reluctant players – towards or return to the Game Pass.

It raises the question: Why is Microsoft emitting so many big games at the beginning of the year? May be Grant theft Auto 6 effect on action, as no publisher wants their games to be close to that giant, if it really reaches the autumn 2025 release window. And who can blame them? If this is the case, then the fall may look quite naked for the xbox after hiding from the rockstar.

I sincerely think (and hope, maybe) that the Xbox is finally making his step with Game Pass, and this is the beginning of a very necessary moment that can take us by 2025 and beyond. After all, minus any delay, fairytale is still planned to come out by the end of the year, and that It may be the big AAA Xbox title this fall. You will not see me complaining.

Despite the odd hardware and exclusive Xbox purgator, I believe this is a good warning for players in a universal way, because a) probably and eventually you will be able to play these wonderful titles on the platform of your choice, B) Xbox owners have a lot to see in the meantime, and c) Such an increase in potentially qualitative software can increase Game Pass subscriptions, which in turn can lead to more excellent games that adorn the service. I want to play more great games, right?

But will that suffice for STAY Players in Game Pass? We will find out, I think. Church is a big issue for these kinds of subscriptions and the seduction of people to stay is a big challenge. Keeping a steady flow of interesting content is felt, at least from the outside, as a monumental task and not many companies have owned.

It will be interesting to see where Xbox and Game Pass go from here, but judging from today’s presentation, I think we have a lot to be excited. South of midnight AND Clair obscur They are my strange kind, for sure. Whether or not they are going to play those in the virtual Boy nintendo, which is also technically an xbox, remains to be seen.