Reaction podcast: Xbox’s Business Update
Microsoft confirmed four games are going multiplatform and teased its next console generation
Jordan Middler
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Microsoft finally held its Xbox Business Update on Thursday, and VGC has published a special edition podcast reacting to all the news, which you can view via the YouTube embed below.
If you missed it, the big headlines coming out of last night’s show are:
- Xbox confirms it’s bringing ‘four games’ to rival platforms
- Xbox says its consoles will remain the ‘flagship’ experience and the only place for Game Pass
- Phil Spencer wants Sony and Nintendo games on Xbox, but he doesn’t expect it
- Diablo 4 is the first Activision Blizzard game coming to Game Pass
- Xbox Game Pass now has 34 million ‘fully paid’ subscribers
- Xbox claims its next console will be ‘the largest technical leap you will have ever seen’
VGC: A Video Games Podcast episodes are available weekly, hosted by VGC’s Jordan Middler, Chris Scullion and Andy Robinson, and broadcaster Pete Donaldson, featuring regular special guests from across the games industry.
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