KEY POINTS
- Microsoft games boss Phil Spencer wants to bring Game Pass to iOS devices by next year, a report says
- Apple hasn’t allowed streaming game services in the past because it couldn’t review each title in the catalog
- A former Apple App Store director claimed Apple doesn’t want competition for its own Arcade service
Microsoft could bring its Xbox Game Pass to Apple devices by 2021, according to a new report.
Business Insider reported, citing sources with “direct knowledge of his comments,” that games boss Phil Spencer told Microsoft employees at an all-hands meeting on Wednesday, “We will absolutely end up on iOS.”
Game Pass is a video game subscription service launched in 2017 where players pay $9.99 monthly to have access to a catalog of games from various publishers. Often compared to Netflix, Game Pass adds and withdraws games for certain periods of time.
It is available to
