You’ve heard it a billion times. Xbox Game Pass is the Netflix of video games, it’s a tired adage that might finally be outdated as I’d make the argument that there’s far more value in Microsoft’s cloud-capable, streaming service than ever before.
No matter which way you shake it, subscribers ate heartily in 2021.
Not only was the third-party support there at launch for titles like Outriders, MLB The Show 21, and Back 4 Blood, but Microsoft’s first-party cannons, after so much prepping, began to fire toward at the year’s tail end with titles like Psychonauts 2, Forza Horizon 5, and Halo Infinite all dominating the conversation in a fourth-quarter where the competition was uncharacteristically quiet.
It’d be foolish to expect Microsoft to throw down their anchor now with so much momentum behind the service and its millions of users, and it…
