No one doubts at this point in life that we are at a time in the market in which subscriptions rule. Payments for monthly services that have to do with music, series, movies, television shows and, of course, video games. So these, given their popularity, have become the real alternative to the option of buying releases independently. And Ubisoft+ is precisely that.
Looking for an urgent exit
The point is that Ubisoft has not been, in recent times, a quiet company as far as information is concerned. To the cancellations of several “unannounced” projects we must add the debacle of the delay of Skull and Bones or the threat of Ives Guillemot that the development teams must put their batteries before the panorama that opens before them. So it is not surprising that the French are looking for windows in which to continue making old releases profitable.
Ubisoft+ is that answer that hit the market almost three years ago and who embraced Google’s newly launched cloud gaming service, Stadia, with force. It was there that he took, in addition to PC, his library of titles for consoles with the promise, not only to launch the news the same day they were put on sale (farcry 6for example) but to do it with all the extras, DLC and expansions that each title on the market had.
The problem is that Stadia failed, closed its servers Last January and only with PC, Ubisoft+ does not allow it to continue looking for a way to earn more money. So, what do you think the next step will be?
Crash Landing on Xbox
It has to be said that With Stadia already mortally wounded, Ubisoft decided to take the step of launching its service on PlayStation, something that happened in May of last year so, obviously, it only lacked the Microsoft side, where there are already flat rates as celebrated as Xbox Game Pass or EA Access, which is also part of the North American ecosystem.
Now, an image published by Windows Central has just appeared showing the possible logo that the Ubisoft+ games would have within the Xbox store so that the user can identify each one and know that this title is part of the plan that is paying the French. In the same way that it already happens with the releases of Electronic Arts that they have within the Xbox Game Pass plan.
At the moment no more is known: if it will be integrated into Xbox Game Pass, if with a single payment we will have access to those Ubisoft games, if it will be marketed separately and even the extension of the catalog since, let’s remember, the French also have an alternative in computers with many developments from their early days when they worked much more specifically on platforms such as the PC (remember the number of deliveries of strategy titles as The Settlers either year…).
For now, keep what Ubisoft + has many ballots to reach Xbox. We just need to know when, how and with what.
