Good news for those that want to play Windows only games on Mac. Microsoft has announced that it is to bring its PC Game Pass Service to NVIDIA’s gaming service GeForce Now For Mac.
The move means that many Windows and Xbox only games will be playable on a Mac in GeForce Now which is NVIDIA’s own gaming platform.
Currently, there are various ways of playing Xbox games on a Mac but GeForce Now will now become one of the easiest and best ways to play Xbox and Windows only titles that aren’t available on Mac.
At the moment, Mac users can play some Xbox games using an Xbox Cloud Ultimate pass but the new deal will bring Windows only games that are normally only on the PC Game Pass Service to Mac via NVIDIA GeForce Now For Mac.
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The news was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase and Starfield Direct event and later confirmed on the Xbox blog and will be rolled out in the “months ahead” according to the post.
At the moment however, it doesn’t appear that all PC Game Pass games will be available on GeForce Now.
Microsoft has confirmed that “select PC games from the library” will be available via GeForce Now For Mac but not all of them.
GeForce Now For Mac offers the incredibly powerful NVIDIA GTX 4080 graphics card hosted in the Cloud so that Mac users effectively get the benefit of a high end gaming PC.
In fact, the GTX 4080 is so powerful that Mac users may well find you get better performance and less latency playing Xbox games on GeForce Now than on Microsoft’s own Xbox Cloud Gaming service.
This move by Microsoft is understood to be part of the company’s overall strategy to pacify regulators due to the ongoing takeover bid of game developer Activision Blizzard.
Tantalizingly for Mac users, if the deal went through then it would mean massive Blizzard games like Diablo 4 could be playable on a Mac via GeForce Now.
It could also mean that Mac users can play the PC version of Starfield on a Mac which has a higher frame rate than the Xbox Cloud version.
The deal has been blocked over Cloud competition concerns and its hoped by the company that partnering with other Cloud services will help push the deal through.