– We put more than one billion dollars into Game Pass every year – PressFire.no

(PressFire.no): It was last week that the chief financial officer at Xbox, Tim Stuart, made reasonably surprising statements about Xbox Game Pass.

Then he could say that the company had changed its strategy a bit, and that the aim was to get both Game Pass and Microsoft’s own games on all screens – including those controlled by Nintendo and PlayStation.

– There is a slight change in the strategy. I’m not announcing anything broadly here, but our plan is to get our own experiences and our subscription solution to every screen that can play games,” Stuart said.

Now, however, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has denied the whole thing in an interview with Windows Central.

– We have no plans to have Game Pass on PlayStation or Nintendo. It’s not in our plans, says Spencer.

He goes on to say that Microsoft is pumping in other studios that they don’t own themselves to get their games on the service.

– We put a lot of money into the market, more than one billion dollars every year, to support third-party games that come on Game Pass

In leaked documents from the trial with US competition authorities, it emerged that Microsoft must pay as much as $100 million to get a game like “Assassin’s Creed Mirage” on Game Pass from day one.

– What we see in Game Pass is a service that supports all kinds of games, from the biggest to unknown indie games that you didn’t know you were going to love until you tried them, explains Spencer.

– Game Pass is one of the things we have built over the past five years, and which we continue to grow. It’s on PC, in the cloud, and it’s an important part of Xbox’s identity. And I think it will continue to be.