Seriously? This could actually happen?

If so please let three of them be Rare Replay, Killer Instinct, and a new Banjo-Kazooie in the style of the N64 games. And maybe this could lead to the original Diddy Kong Racing being on Switch.

Article requires a subscription to view, but assuming this is about the 4 Xbox games going to other platforms, insiders say they are Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, Grounded, and HiFi Rush.

That 110m goal was silly, Imho, I don't believe Game Pass could ever reach 100m+, comparing it that directly to TV streaming services is not sensible Imo, I think the way people consume TV Shows/Films is a lot different to the way people consume Games, I'm not saying Game Pass can't appeal to a casual audience, it can, but I think it won't be able to engulf them in the same way TV/Music subscriptions have, for a few factors, it's a lot easier to binge a TV Show or Film than "binge" a game, whatever that would be, many TV Shows are exclusive to subscription services, Game Pass has no exclusives, there's far more TV Show content, you don't have to put much effort or thought into a TV Show versus a game, some people literally only play a single game so it would be useless to them, etc. But it doesn't matter, it was always positioned as an additional source of revenue and as long as it remains profitable it will be fine. Just don't have the expectations it will get Netflix numbers.

Think the only chance of that is if it is literally everywhere like Netflix, on PlayStation, on Switch, on Steam, on Xbox, on TVs, on Mobiles, etc. You can't expect 100m+ on only Xbox, Windows Store and xCloud and it's a lot easier to stream a TV Show than it is a videogame so xCloud isn't a viable option for many, yet, maybe it will be in the future, that's a long term play. I think Steam could give it millions though, from all the people who don't want to touch Windows Store, Lol.

Most casual gamers are on mobile anyway these days, so unless Xbox plans to add their upcoming Android Xbox store to Gamepass, with a selection of free mobile games, kind of like Apple Arcade, I agree that they won't get anywhere near 100m ever, even some of the tv streaming services like Paramount+ and Max and Peacock are struggling to hit 100m subs, only the 3 biggest have pulled it off so far (Netflix, Prime, and Disney+), and even those 3 have all lost subs in recent months due to raising prices and the declining quality of their content libraries. Gamepass just isn't going to pull off 100m+ users, core gaming isn't big enough and casuals don't game on console near as much as they used to (Switch aside).

Think the only chance of that is if it is literally everywhere like Netflix, on PlayStation, on Switch, on Steam, on Xbox, on TVs, on Mobiles, etc. You can't expect 100m+ on only Xbox, Windows Store and xCloud and it's a lot easier to stream a TV Show than it is a videogame so xCloud isn't a viable option for many, yet, maybe it will be in the future, that's a long term play. I think Steam could give it millions though, from all the people who don't want to touch Windows Store, Lol. It'd be interesting to see if they have any strong plans for Game Pass in their mobile plans though, a bit difficult, since basically all the biggest mobile titles are F2P, Lol.

An apple arcade like mobile version of Gamepass on this upcoming Xbox android storefront could maybe get them closer to 100m at least. Apple hasn't announced subscriber numbers for arcade but the developer of a Football game on Apple Arcade claimed it has over 100m subs at one point. But this Xbox store on Android is likely to have alot less users than both Apple Store and Google Play Store.

Opening up Gamepass to steam would be a good idea for sure, I'd guess it's drive about 10m new subs in the first quarter after the launch.  

I have Amazon Prime too, has some great shows, but I doubt it would have reached 100m+ as exclusively a TV streaming service, Prime is strong because it's linked to literally everything else that Amazon has, Lol.

But there were almost 12 million Gold subscribers in January 2022. So it dropped by a couple of million in the past two years though admittedly people might be expending more now on average.

That 12m Gold Subs may have included people paying for Gamepass Ultimate though, Gamepass Ultimate comes with a Gold sub basically. 

Gamepass needs CoD. That should help give it a boost later this year.