Xbox Recreation Go subscriptions have begun to taper off

Recreation Go, Microsoft’s subscription service for video games, has 34 million subscribers as of February 2024. Microsoft revealed the quantity in a blog post the place it shared its plan about the way forward for the Xbox enterprise.

The newest quantity reveals that Recreation Go progress has slowed down drastically. It took Microsoft three years since Recreation Go 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 progress charge of almost 90 p.c per yr. A yr later, the corporate introduced that Recreation Go had 25 million subscribers. Over the past two years, Recreation Go has added 9 million subscribers, which might be a mean annual enhance of simply 18 p.c.

Recreation Go lets gamers pay a month-to-month payment 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 carry Xbox video games to extra platforms together with the PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Swap, each of which have much more customers than Xbox. There are presently no plans to supply Recreation Go on both Sony or Nintendo’s platforms.