GeForce NOW and Xbox Game Pass are becoming fast friends. NVIDIA and Xbox have announced today that the Xbox Game Pass catalog of PC games will be available on GeForce NOW in the near future.
Last month, NVIDIA announced that the first of many Xbox games were coming to GeForce NOW. The first title was Gears 5, with a promise that more titles were on the way. And when NVIDIA says more are on the way, it really does mean more. A lot more.
For GeForce NOW subscribers, this is a pretty big deal. As it gives them more titles to play. For Xbox Game Pass subscribers, there’s now a reason to also subscribe to GeForce NOW. Because GeForce NOW offers better performance. And through this partnership, Xbox Game Pass games on PC will be able to run at higher spec through the Ultimate membership, which uses an RTX 4080 GPU.
GeForce NOW will not get the “entire” Xbox Game Pass catalog
While it’s a nice thought, Microsoft isn’t giving away the farm here. There will be “select titles” from the PC catalog that subscribers will be able to stream using GeForce NOW.
That might sound like less of a good deal, but don’t write it off. There’s still likely to be a pretty decent number of available titles. And since these come from Xbox Game Pass, these aren’t games you actually have to own if you subscribe to both services. As of now there’s no mention of when the integration arrives. The official word is to “look for further updates about this integration in the coming months.” So it sounds like there’s still a few months to go.
Outside of the Game Pass catalog, NVIDIA is adding two games to GeForce NOW this week. This includes Dordogne, which is a new release on Steam as of June 13, and Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.