Microsoft is making some changes to Xbox subscriptions, alongside launching a new Xbox TV app. The message is that you don’t need an Xbox console to play games.
It’s been quite the week for Xbox fans. Microsoft’s Xbox TV app recently arrived on some Amazon Fire TV devices, and with it came a clear message from Microsoft: you don’t need an Xbox console to play Xbox games. Days later, Microsoft hiked its Game Pass prices. Microsoft has quietly been saying you don’t need an Xbox console for years with its day-one releases of Xbox games on PC, but this time, it said the quiet part out loud.
A few weeks after I received this tip, Xbox tweeted: “No console, no problem 🔥” in a post on X about the new Xbox app for Fire TV sticks. If Microsoft is genuinely rethinking its console strategy across Europe, it will be interesting to see where stock is allocated for its upcoming discless Xbox Series X console. Microsoft has already committed to a next-generation Xbox, but I’m more convinced than ever before that the future of the Xbox looks a lot like a PC.
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