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Hello everyone and welcome back to a new episode of GRTV News. It's a new week and we're going

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to be talking about something that took place at the very end of last week and it's quite

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an interesting one at that because a new rumour has gone around regarding the official Game

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Pass figures and how many subscribers the service has. Now it's a rumour because the

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information was put out there and then swiftly deleted so we have to look at it and go like

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why is it being deleted but regardless it gives a good idea as to how Game Pass is sort

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of growing and expanding if there's any truth to these numbers so with that being the case

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let's dive on in.

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Rumour Game Pass has over 30 million subscribers as of August 2023.

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Microsoft hasn't communicated any official number for Game Pass subscribers since last

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year when it was officially revealed that it had over 25 million users. Since then members

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from the Xbox team including the Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said that the number has

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increased without sharing how much. Earlier today we got a hint though from Xbox marketing

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exec Chris McNary who wrote on his LinkedIn that Game Pass has surpassed 30 million users

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last month, August. Launched and grew Xbox Game Pass, the world's number one gaming subscription

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service to over 30 million members. This was noticed by Tamir222 on X who screen grabbed

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the evidence when this was shared on social media. McNary decided to remove this number

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as it seemingly wasn't meant to be public information. As an Xbox exec McNary had the

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correct information available so it seems fairly plausible that this is correct information

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on the number of subscribers. As Xbox Game Pass Core launched earlier this week it's

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believed that the number of Game Pass subscribers will increase by a lot this month as all Xbox

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Live Gold subscriptions are automatically converted to Core. Hopefully this means Microsoft

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will be inclined to provide an official update on the current number of Game Pass subscribers.

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And then this is the image here from Chris McNary's LinkedIn. Again he's been at Microsoft

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for nearly 14 years now so definitely a veteran of the company. And it says in the statement

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that he has grown Game Pass subscribers to over 30 million users which again it's not

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something that's in the post anymore because of the fact that it's not something that should

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have been public information but it's right there. Launching directs Xbox Game Pass the

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world's number one gaming subscription service to over 30 million members through measured

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full funnel campaigns, GTM planning, etc. But yeah as Jarrod just puts in the news piece

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there Game Pass Core has launched which is quite an interesting thing because it's finally

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getting rid of Xbox Live Gold games where gold is dying all that stuff and instead anyone

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who had previous games with Gold subscriptions are now getting solely Xbox Game Pass Core

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subscriptions so you know the Game Pass numbers should significantly increase over the coming

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few weeks and months. So no doubt yeah as Jarrod puts we'll hear some official information

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about the Game Pass figures in the coming weeks and months but yeah that's all the time

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we have on today's episode of GRTV News. We'll be back now tomorrow with the next one so

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until then I hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday and we'll see you all on the next one.

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Take care everyone.

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