Xbox Game Pass Now Has Over 15 Million Subscribers

And it shows no signs of slowing down

by Fraser Gilbert Mon 21st Sep 2020

Xbox Game Pass Now Has Over 15 Million Subscribers

What a day it's been so far! Microsoft dropped a landmark announcement on us earlier today that it's acquiring ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks, and buried within that information was the news that Xbox Game Pass has now reached a new milestone of over 15 million subscribers.

In comparison, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted as recently as late April that the service had recorded over 10 million members, so that's another five million added in just a few months' time!

Today's news also came with the confirmation that Bethesda's iconic franchises will be added to Xbox Game Pass, including future titles for console and PC, and EA Play has already been announced as heading to the service in the near future. In other words, expect that number to grow rapidly over the coming weeks and months!

Are you one of the 15 million? Happy with the service Xbox Game Pass provides? Let us know in the comments.

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.

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Senua
Mon 21st Sep 2020

A lot of short-sighted vested interests would try to downplay this as only a minor victory for gamepass.
But always remember this is always going to be in favour of not only Xbox fans but everyone in general who loves gaming.

As one of the largest, most critically acclaimed, privately held game developers and publishers in the world, Bethesda is an incredibly talented group of 2,300 people worldwide who make up some of the most accomplished creative studios in our industry across Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios. These are the teams responsible for franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Dishonored, Prey, Quake, Starfield and many more.”

Xbox 1st party Game Studios is officially one of the biggest right now.

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Bmartin001
Mon 21st Sep 2020

Awsome news for Xbox..

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Jslade
Mon 21st Sep 2020

Been a subscriber to GamePass for quite some time now, and have been thoroughly impressed with it. It's the best thing to ever happen to gaming for me. Today's news just makes something great even greater.

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Dpullam
Mon 21st Sep 2020

I am absolutely one of the 15 million subscribers! Microsoft buying Zenimax and thus their studios as well. This is a good day for Xbox fans!

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Senua
Mon 21st Sep 2020

@Royalblues “Gamepass is not a feasible model for 100m$(only) game productions.”
Even a primary school kid with basic knowledge of mathematics will tell you what’s more profitable and sustainable both in long term user-platform retention and maintaining high quality of content production.😂
After all Microsoft is already going to be a 2T$ company soon.
Why only settle to target few million 70$ a pop buyers when you can target 2B+ players instead!

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Nermannn
Mon 21st Sep 2020

Man 15 million is impressive! I’m a lapsed Xbox fan, skipped out on the Xbox One Generation, but I’ll be a game pass subscriber as soon as I can get my hands on the Series X!