ALL Xbox PC games will come to competing cloud service NVIDIA GeForce

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While Microsoft waits to see if its blockbuster merger with Activision Blizzard will be approved by regulators, the company announced a separate team up with a game streaming service called Nvidia GeForce Now. Microsoft said that all of its Xbox PC games will be available on the service.

Microsoft President Brad Smith announced the partnership at a press conference at Brussels, according to a tweet by the managing editor of Windows Central Gaming.

At a press conference in Brussels, Microsoft President Brad Smith just announced ALL Xbox PC games will come to competing cloud service NVIDIA GeForce Now."NVIDIA now supports this deal." pic.twitter.com/1cx0kIYpKz

Smith also said that all of Activision Blizzard’s games will be available as well, and that “the future is cross platform.” There is a caveat, however; unlike Xbox Game Pass, people will still have to buy the actual games, as the deal is for 10 years of streaming rights, according to a press release.

“Xbox remains committed to giving people more choice and finding ways to expand how people play,” Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said. “This partnership will help grow NVIDIA’s catalog of titles to include games like Call of Duty, while giving developers more ways to offer streaming games. We are excited to offer gamers more ways to play the games they love.” 

Jeff Fisher, the senior vice president for GeForce at NVIDIA, said the partnership will “propel cloud gaming into a mainstream offering that appeals to gamers at all levels of interest and experience.”

“Through this partnership, more of the world’s most popular titles will now be available from the cloud with just a click, playable by millions more gamers,” Fisher said.

The agreement means that NVIDIA is now behind the