On the 21st of February, 2023, Microsoft and NVIDIA signed a 10-year agreement to bring Xbox PC games to the NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. GeForce NOW is NVIDIA’s paid game streaming service, that allows you to stream any game that you own on any device you want to, a laptop, a smartphone, Chromebook, MacBook etc.
This agreement will allow users to stream Xbox PC games from GeForce NOW to other devices. It will also enable Activision Blizzard PC titles, such as Call of Duty, Diablo III, to be streamed on GeForce NOW, post the closure of Microsoft’s much talked about acquisition of Activision.
Xbox remains committed to giving people more choice and finding ways to expand how people play. 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.
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer
This will definitely benefit Call of Duty players, enabling a much larger ecosystem for players to compete and play against each other. A bunch of Xbox exclusives will now be available to GeForce NOW users. Lack of certain exclusive titles has been a prime reason for dilemma about choosing a gaming console of buying a PC for thousands of gamers, so this partnership will seem like a respite to such gamers.
Microsoft and NVIDIA begin work immediately to integrate Xbox PC games in GeForce NOW, enabling GeForce NOW members to stream PC games they buy in the Windows Store, including third-party partner titles where the publisher has granted streaming rights to NVIDIA. For more information about GeForce NOW, visit the official website.
The service is yet to launch in India, and we don’t have a timeline for its launch yet. Regardless of the timeline, a launch is imminent; game streaming is the next big thing.
Along with this agreement, Microsoft also shared that it will bring the latest version of Call of Duty to the Nintendo platform following the merger with Activision.
