I love Gears 5 a lot, as well as Game Pass, so I find this great news. Good on Microsoft and The Coalition, and here's hoping they can properly capitalize on this momentum.
MS will be hoping a lot of users stick to the service going forward.
most likly lower then the past entries since unless you like owning your games there is no reason to not go through game pass to play itGreat news. Genuinely curious to how it'll do in more, uh, "traditional sales", i guess?
Great news. Genuinely curious to how it'll do in more, uh, "traditional sales", i guess?
I think it will be far lower in terms of lifetime sales than the older ones, but also that that is a metric Microsoft is no longer going to lose any sleep over.Great news. Genuinely curious to how it'll do in more, uh, "traditional sales", i guess?
This is the Netflix syndrome. Stranger Things or Orange is the New Black makes people sign up; a lot of people cancel once they are done with that, but many stick around because of the surrounding library.it'll lead to a high number of cancels too when people are done with the game
it'll lead to a high number of cancels too when people are done with the game
it'll lead to a high number of cancels too when people are done with the game
It'll be next to impossible to judge this game fairly based on traditional sales. Even if it does well, doesn't paint a clear enough picture.Great news. Genuinely curious to how it'll do in more, uh, "traditional sales", i guess?
most likly lower then the past entries since unless you like owning your games there is no reason to not go through game pass to play it
I think it will be far lower in terms of lifetime sales than the older ones, but also that that is a metric Microsoft is no longer going to lose any sleep over.
It'll be next to impossible to judge this game fairly based on traditional sales. Even if it does well, doesn't paint a clear enough picture.
Turned around? Were Gears struggling before?More than anything else, I think The Coalition deserves mad props for how well they have turned Gears around.
They sold well in launch month, but I daresay their lifetime sales are depressed relative to their immediate predecessors/what they would have been had there been no Game Pass.Yeah, the thing that makes me curious is that the same argument was used for SOD2, Sea of Thieves and FH4, and yet, all of those sold really well. That's why i'm curious.
I'm aware of that. I'm just curious.
Guess Gears is the only game on the service then huh.it'll lead to a high number of cancels too when people are done with the game
4 was pretty meh, and also underperformed. The main entry before that was Judgement, which doesn't need any expounding.
They sold well in launch month, but I daresay their lifetime sales are depressed relative to their immediate predecessors/what they would have been had there been no Game Pass.
MS will be hoping a lot of users stick to the service going forward.
This is the case for me. I paid for 24 months of Gold for €85 and 2 months of Ultimate for €2, making it around €3.30 a month. I'm PC only and the full price of the service would be €10 per month.A lot of people are signing up because of the $1-$2 1 month deals for ultimate not to mention that you can use those deals to one-time upgrade your entire Gold Membership to Ultimate. Many people are buying 3 years of Gold and converting it to Ultimate.
Praise for getting people to do it but it's far too early to commend it for competitive pricing, at least when you're just looking at sticker price. I doubt as many people would be buying if they had to pay full Ultimate monthly pricing.
I think Microsoft timed those promotions right to create the perfect storm.Wonder how many signups were taking advantage of the $1 upgrade thingy. I spent about $280 to get three accounts on Ultimate for until June 2022.