Xbox Game Pass has given Microsoft more ammunition to justify rebooting older game franchises, the company’s head of gaming has said.
Xbox’s subscription service currently gives its circa-20 million subscribers on-demand access to a large library of legacy games from the likes of Rare, Bethesda, Double Fine and more.
Speaking as part of the latest Kinda Funny Gamescast (currently subscriber-only), Xbox boss Phil Spencer said that being able to track the popularity of older franchises made it easier to justify greenlighting new instalments, such as the upcoming Fable reboot by Playground.
Asked if player data for legacy games on Game Pass incentivises the rebooting of franchises, Spencer said: “Absolutely it does… take Prey, which I think was an amazing game when it came out but a lot of people missed…
“Seeing more people playing something like Prey, or Dishonored or going…
