Interesting, thought COD may not have been day 1.
Was hoping to get some info on how they intend to release the older ABK games (not just Diablo 4)on Game Pass. There is plenty, but he seems to only talk about launches of upcoming games? Maybe I read that wrong.
I’m sure stuff like Crash 4, THPS remakes, Prototype etc are coming, but it’s definitely the complete opposite of how they did it with Zenimax drops on the service.
I’m sure they’ve said before though that the reason ABK has taken so long is due to the uncertainty from the CMA and whether they would get actual clearance. I guess you can’t really do anything in terms of prepping games for the GP catalogue whilst you are waiting on that
The source article:
edit: Just finished reading it, it’s got some good stuff. I was surprised to learn that xCloud now represents a “double-digit percentage of total hours of Xbox games played.”
Not bad for a beta feature of the main product.
Releasing them in big batches doesn’t really make sense, with all those CoD games it makes more sense to spread them out a bit, maybe releasing them all in one big batch was a mistake for the Zenimax games too
I linked it in the news piece multiple times! But thank you 
Yeah, if they aren’t just dropping it all in one go I hope they take their time and make a big event of it. I’d like to see them stretch out each Call of Duty title with a weekly game pass drop and in game events across all platforms, or maybe let’s see some more backwards compatability or get a CTR PC port out at last and give it some support.
That would be nice, a "new* CoD campaign to play every week until all of them are on it. I missed a lot, got a lot of catching up to do. And along with titles like Crash 4 and some others would be nice. Let’s hope after Diablo 4 is out on it we won’t be waiting too long for them to just drop ABK titles here and there more often.
hell yeah day one
Also notes that digital isn’t the only option in the future but Phil mentioned looking at it not being used by the majority of owners and implied it costs more because of lower numbers of companies making them, which makes me think they’ll look at offering a disc drive external to the main console instead of internal. That way people who want it get it, it doesn’t increase the cost of the console, but it also encourages more people to go digital since it’s an extra cost
Edit - I now see there’s a post for that also.
People really thought they were going to just drop hundreds of games all at once???
Only when they do that first drop for Nintendo and Sony … 
I still don’t understand why was this questioned in the first place. The only doubt was about CoD not launching due to possible contract stuff with Sony.
It’s probably pointing out the obvious but Xboxera is a start up news site, we are all here to support their take on Xbox news and forums and clicks will be an important metric for them. So rather than posting links that cut out a hit on their site we should all be clicking through as much as possible to the website articles.
Most of the Bethesda games were already on Game Pass (or more correctly the Microsoft Store on PC). They had just some administrative tasks to do. For ABK titles they have to touch the code and change all calls to Battlenet/Steamworks API to Xbox Live so that it behaves like a Xbox title (crossplay, achievements, friends list, …). Thats work to do so it takes some time.
For ancient stuff like CoD World at War this can be a real nightmare depending on how they do this.
yeah, that was really surprising. Would be interesting to know this data specifically for every country. There have to be parts of the world where xCloud is the main access to Xbox.
This reasoning is exactly why I linked the source article, except I applied it to Stephen Totilo . He’s one of very few good actual reporters out there that focus on video games. He recently left Axios to start up his own thing: Game File
It’s a newsletter about video games, and so far he’s been doing a great job. I would very much like to see him succeed, and so I posted the link in an effort to send some traffic his way.
I’m sure most readers will just read the quote here on Xboxera and stop at that, but I feel Stephen Totilo deserves the click for doing the interview that generated the quote in the first place.
SneakersSO was spreading FUD on Neogaf about the day 1 disappearing because thats what he does. Sad waste of skin. Unfortunately it circulated around forums and some news sites.
Well you for one didn’t click on the Xboxera link or otherwise you would have seen that 4 words in there is a link to the gamesfile interview.
Not sure I get your logic here when anyone clicking into the Xboxera article would see a link to the OG. interview pretty much straight away.
Unless it’s that you like posting on this forum but you don’t want people to click through to web links to support this forum and make sure it doesn’t disappear because you want to support Stephen at the expense of keeping the lights on here?
Why not both as the OG article is designed to do?