Diablo 4 is the fastest-launching game ever on Xbox Game Pass
Micrsoft revealed that Diablo 4 was the game with the best launch ever on Xbox Game Pass, where it has accumulated millions of players.
Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Studios, revealed that Diablo 4 turned out to be the biggest launch ever on Xbox Game Pass . This is a new record for the platform. The information was leaked during an interview given to the Strictly Business podcast.
To be precise, in the first ten days after launch, Diablo IV was played for more than 10 million hours , doing better than anyone else, even Starfield , which until now had the absolute record. Bethesda’s title was also the one to have produced the most new subscribers at launch (official numbers were never provided).
Acquisitions bear fruit
The result of Diablo 4 is all the more relevant if we think about the fact that the game had already been available for some time on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series on Game Pass it did them really well in terms of numbers, bringing many subscribers into the game.
Diablo 4 is the fastest-launching game ever on Xbox Game Pass
Booty also had the opportunity to talk about the recent closures of some Xbox Game Studios , with related layoffs. According to him, despite these facts, the acquisitions of Zenimax/Bethesda first and then Activision Blizzard will be strategic for the future of Xbox.
The arrival of other Activision Blizzard titles on Xbox Game Pass is one of the issues that Microsoft will have to resolve in the coming months, given that fans expect them and that they could be very important for the spread of the service, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 in the lead.
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