Xbox Game Pass will soon let you stream games you’ve already bought

Microsoft has plenty of information for Xbox house owners and Sport Move followers this morning. In an announcement put up, the corporate shared its plans to broaden the Xbox app on to Samsung sensible TVs, opening up the streaming platform to gamers in Argentina and New Zealand. There are additionally some new gaming-focused tweaks to the Edge browser. However probably the most attention-grabbing tidbit is that the Xbox Sport Move will permit gamers to stream video games that they’ve already bought, not simply the Netflix-style library of video games the service presently boasts.

Particulars are slim in the mean time. Microsoft is planning to supply this performance “later this yr,” and it’ll embrace “choose video games [you] already personal or have bought outdoors the Xbox Sport Move library.” Whether or not meaning Xbox console video games, PC video games, or each was not elucidated — Sport Move helps each for streaming. Nevertheless it’s achieved, this performance would possible be tied to a consumer’s digital library to offer licensing and possession verification. That might imply solely digital video games bought by way of the Xbox Video games Retailer on consoles or the Microsoft Retailer on PCs could be eligible.

Increasing Xbox Sport Move to incorporate each a subscription library and customers’ already-purchased video games would give it a leg up on different streaming platforms. Notably, GeForce Now consists of zero video games in its subscription choices (except you depend free-to-play titles), as a substitute counting on customers’ current libraries of bought video games on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. Smaller companies like Google Stadia permit gamers to buy particular person video games, however they’re locked to the streaming service and there’s no approach so as to add titles you’ve bought elsewhere.

An unlikely however superb function could be the flexibility to hyperlink video games bought from outdoors platforms to Xbox Sport Move streaming, the way in which GeForce Now does along with your Steam and Epic purchases. However we get forward of ourselves. Streaming user-purchased video games along with a pre-set library will already be sufficient of a technical and licensing problem with out including cross-platform complications. We’ll merely have to attend and see what this extra succesful Xbox Sport Move seems to be like later this yr.