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Xbox PC games will be made available on Nvidia GeForce Now, announces Microsoft
The deal will also bring Activision’s Call of Duty games to Nvidia GeForce Now if the proposed acquisition of the company by Microsoft gets approved.
Microsoft has announced a 10-year partnership with Nvidia which will bring Xbox PC games to GeForce Now which is Nvidia’s cloud gaming service. The deal will also bring Activision’s Call of Duty games to Nvidia GeForce Now if the proposed acquisition of the company by Microsoft gets approved.
This will allow players to stream first-party Xbox PC games to their PCs, macOS, Chromebooks, and mobile devices.
Microsoft announced the partnership with Nvidia moments after the company presented its reasons at a European Commission hearing on Tuesday for why their proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard should be approved.
Microsoft and Nvidia announce partnership
Afterwards, Microsoft and Nvidia announced that they will start working together to bring Xbox PC games to GeForce Now.
“Xbox remains committed to giving people more choice and finding ways to expand how people play,” said Xbox boss Phil Spencer.
He added, “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, senior vice president for GeForce at Nvidia, said, “Combining the incredibly rich catalog of Xbox first party games with GeForce Now’s high-performance streaming capabilities 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,” added Jeff Fisher.
Microsoft has also announced a ‘legally-binding’ 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo.