Nvidia's GeForce Now is losing all Activision Blizzard games, a bad sign for cloud gaming

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DonFerrari said:

sales2099 said:

Guess you can say I’m optimistic MS knows better how to strike a partnership. With them having more day to day experience and relations in the industry. Not to mention this is their one of few options to capitalize where Sony can’t follow. We’ll see 

Edit: Game Pass is pretty successful according to MS and it only has a couple hundred games. It launched with 100. You don’t need several hundred to make it big. The games just have to be good enough, service has to work, and have enough exclusives to set apart. Again in a few years the last point will be well in its way to be realized, and even more so going forward after that. 

Well yep I do think MS can put a good service on Xcloud and do good partnerships (although NVIDIA I would also expect to have good relationships with most publishers, but guess both sides couldn't agree on a fair profit share). And sure you can be optimistic.

To start the service sure 100 is plenty but that needs either growth or cycling, you wouldn't keep a high and growing number of subs if you had the same 100 games for 5 years, just as consoles don't keep selling if there aren't new games coming.

Well a quick search showed Stadia having about 40 games out now while Xcloud, still in preview mode for 10-20k globally, has about 50. So far so good. They seem to know how to cycle games like they do in Game Pass while all new 1st party games are new and permanent additions.

With the indie games being pumped out besides the big guns it looks like Xcloud/Game Pass/consoles will get a steady stream. I mean 2020 is a great example of A-AA padding out the year until Forza 8/Halo Infinite. So I say let these other players flounder and pave the way for Xcloud when the tech and market is ready for it.