Xbox players already have access to a plethora of gaming subscription services, including Xbox Game Pass, EA Play, Antstream Arcade, and Ubisoft+, but soon, they might be able to add GeForce Now to that list as well. Though Microsoft does offer its own streaming alternative, the addition of native support for Nvidia's flagship cloud streaming service on Xbox consoles could be a big deal for many, especially if more games that players own in their Xbox libraries become compatible with GeForce Now in the future.

In 2020, Microsoft officially released xCloud, a cloud gaming service designed to make Xbox Game Pass's extensive catalog of games more accessible to players around the globe without the need for a PC or an Xbox console. Though Xbox has made some major improvements to xCloud over the years, one major issue with the service has remained entirely unaddressed: the ability to cloud stream games that aren't part of the Game Pass catalog. The rival cloud gaming service GeForce Now, meanwhile, allows its subscribers to stream many titles outside of the ones on Game Pass. Fortunately, judging from a recent leak, Xbox players may soon have the ability to stream these non-GP games and try out the service natively on Xbox consoles themselves.

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As spotted by the insider eXtas1s on Twitter, several games on the Xbox store — including Resident Evil Village, Street Fighter 6, and Call of Duty: Warzone — are currently displaying the option to play the titles with GeForce Now. This seems to suggest that Nvidia's cloud streaming service may soon be integrated into Xbox consoles in some shape or form, whether that be through an official GeForce Now app on the Microsoft store, or through a simple link that redirects players to the GeForce Now site via the browser. If this does end up being the former, then Xbox players may soon have the ability to cloud stream some of the Xbox Play Anywhere games they own that aren't currently in the Xbox Game Pass library, like Greedfall, A Plague Tale: Innocence, or Soma.

A GeForce Now App on Xbox Consoles Would Make Using the Service Much More Convenient

What's more exciting, though, is the prospect of being able to stream games that aren't available on Microsoft's platform through a hypothetical GeForce Now app on Xbox consoles. Titles like World of Warcraft would be accessible on Xbox easily this way, in addition to other games like Disgaea, Star Ocean: The Second Story R, and Death Stranding. Unlike the aforementioned Play Anywhere titles, these games have to be purchased individually through PC storefronts like Steam, which is a minor (but unfortunate) drawback. Every other title that doesn't have Xbox storefront support on GeForce Now, like Resident Evil 7 and Street Fighter 6, suffers from this same issue as well.

Technically, GeForce Now is already accessible on Xbox consoles in an unofficial manner courtesy of the Microsoft Edge browser. However, using it is cumbersome and inconvenient compared to xCloud, so a dedicated app for the subscription service would be a big upgrade for GeForce Now on Xbox.