Microsoft is Bringing Xbox Live to Nintendo Switch | Project xCloud Supports all Digital Xbox Games

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Microsoft and Nintendo are working together for the Xbox Game Pass service to offer support for the Nintendo Switch, reports Direct Feed Games. This could be a rumor more emerged from a YouTube channel, but gains strength when Game Informer, a veteran and prestigious US magazine, echoes this and claims by its own sources that the announcement could take place this year. Also, it makes sense.

Rumor has it that Microsoft will take advantage of the streaming service Project xCloud to bring the Xbox One games to Nintendo Switch via Xbox Game Pass. The hybrid console is not capable of natively running titles like Crackdown 3 or the next Gears 5, but it could with an application access the Xbox Game Pass catalog to play via streaming. It is unknown for now what would happen to the third-party titles, where the wishes of a third party would come into play.

That Microsoft seeks to expand the reach of Xbox Game Pass is not at all strange. At the end of last year Phil Spencer said that the goal was to bring the service to "all devices", the same goal that the executive has with Project xCloud. Microsoft recently paved this way by announcing its intention to bring Xbox Live to any Switch game. As for Nintendo, we must not forget that in Japan it is possible to play Resident Evil 7 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey in Switch through the game in the cloud.

In addition, it is said that Microsoft would be interested in editing some of its own games on Nintendo Switch. This initiative would not be at all surprising. Minecraft is a first-party of Xbox Game Studios that is already available on the Nintendo console and during the spring Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice of Ninja Theory will follow the same path. It is said that the next one could be Ori and the Blind Forest, the well-known platform game by Moon Studios.