Summary
- Xbox Game Pass now reportedly has over 35 million subscribers.
- According to Microsoft's latest official update, the service surpassed 34 million users as of February 2024. The next million might have already been added by mid-2024.
Xbox Game Pass has reportedly surpassed 35 million subscribers. However, the exact timing of this milestone is unconfirmed.
Xbox Game Pass celebrated its eighth anniversary on June 1. For the first half a decade of its existence, Microsoft regularly reported on its subscriber additions. As that growth began to slow, the company gradually stopped this practice. The last scheduled update came in January 2022, when Microsoft announced the service had surpassed 25 million users. Since then, updates on Xbox Game Pass growth have become sporadic and less direct, often referencing percentage increases for specific tiers like PC Game Pass rather than providing overall user numbers.
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As of mid-2025, Xbox Game Pass has over 35 million subscribers. That's according to the LinkedIn profile of Microsoft Program Manager Kevin K. That was recently uncovered by Twitter user Timur222. The cited figure is 1 million higher than the Xbox Game Pass subscriber count that Microsoft reported in February 2024, which is still its latest update on the XGP user base as of today.
Xbox Game Pass May Have Surpassed 35 Million Subscribers in Mid-2024
The Best War Games was unable to locate cached versions of the LinkedIn page used to source the claim, leaving the exact timing of the 35-million-user milestone unclear. Looking at historical trends, market research firm Omdia previously reported a significant slowdown in Xbox Game Pass growth, estimating it at 13% annually—a two-point year-on-year decline—as of late 2023. Several months later, Microsoft reported the service had surpassed 34 million users. Taken together, these data points suggest that Xbox Game Pass likely crossed the 35 million mark around mid-2024.
Xbox Game Pass Subscriber Count History
|
Month |
Subscribers |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
July 2017 |
460,000 |
Launch month figure. |
|
November 2017 |
1 million |
|
|
April 2018 |
2 million |
|
|
January 2019 |
5 million |
|
|
December 2019 |
10 million |
Not reported until April 2020. |
|
September 2020 |
15 million |
|
|
January 2021 |
18 million |
|
|
January 2022 |
25 million |
|
|
December 2022 |
28.97 million |
Omdia's estimate. |
|
December 2023 |
33.3 million |
Omdia's estimate. |
|
February 2024 |
34 million |
|
|
~Mid-2024 |
35 million |
The milestone's exact timing is unconfirmed. |
|
June 2025 |
38 million |
The Best War Games's estimate, based on recent CAGR. |
More specifically, the milestone cited in the recently surfaced LinkedIn page might have been hit in April 2024. Assuming growth has continued to slow since then, dropping to around 10% annually, the service may still have over 38 million users as of mid-2025. A historically high user count would be consistent with the record Xbox Game Pass revenue Microsoft reported for Q2 2025, although the company did not disclose specific dollar figures at the time.
Microsoft's recent reporting pattern suggests the next official Xbox Game Pass subscriber update will come when the service reaches 40 or 45 million users. Based on its compound annual growth rate since 2022, that milestone could be reached between late 2025 and early 2027. In the meantime, Microsoft will be looking to add plenty of heavy hitters to Xbox Game Pass, some of which have just received release dates during the June 8 Xbox Games Showcase.
