A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims Xbox Game Pass currently has around 30 million subscribers, falling well short of Microsoft’s previously disclosed internal projections.
According to the publication, Microsoft had expected Xbox Game Pass subscribers to reach roughly 77 million by this year. The target came from a company document that surfaced during legal proceedings related to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The Wall Street Journal reports that the service “currently has about 30 million,” citing a person familiar with the matter.
Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard in part to strengthen the content available through Game Pass, its subscription service that offers access to a library of games across Xbox consoles, PC and cloud gaming, including day-one releases for first-party titles and selected third-party games.
The reported subscriber figure represents a sizeable gap between Microsoft’s internal expectations and the service’s current position. The company has not publicly confirmed the latest Game Pass subscriber count.
If accurate, the report would mark one of the first indications of the service’s current scale since Microsoft’s previously disclosed subscriber milestones and the internal forecasts that emerged during the Activision Blizzard legal proceedings.
