I'm just saying that I've read the argument that "the way we engage with games is fundamentally very different from movies or music therefore a subscription service isn't going to take over in the same way as it has those mediums" on here many times before and it just looks more and more correct to me.
How is the addition of one game going to make a monthly subscription worth it for someone who didn't think it was worth it before? Especially with subscription costs likely going up? This seems especially unlikely given how many CoD players play that game near exclusively.
Yeah, I think the case for Call of Duty on Game Pass making subscriptions explode is overstated. No matter how many other games are on there - even past Call of Dutys, a lot of casuals just play the one or two games a year tops. There'll be a point where paying a rolling subscription wouldn't be worth it over just buying the game and online access unless Microsoft go all out and put it in Game Pass Core.
Yep, and remember how Fallout New Vegas devs got screwed by just missing the Metacritic target by one point.
Or people will buy their yearly CODs for $70, which is still less than a yearly subscription.
They just need to make Gold $120/year and then Ultimate (COD included) becomes the better deal. Too bad the increase they tried last year didn't work out, lol. I'm curious to see what happens next.
I feel like they've been resetting since the announcement of Project Scorpio 6 years ago.
No he reports accurately. It's just easy to get tripped up when it goes from games and services in 2023 to talking about game pass KPI in the next bullet point. I'm not surprised the conversation is all centered around game pass.
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People say this despite everything was put on table by lawyers and the recent leaks.
That's 2022's growth (target was 73%).Per this article Game Pass grew 28% and revenue 0.7%
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You know why.
I have gamepass on a 6+ year old PC
Why do they need to buy hardware in the first place if they already have that PC? The most popular and most played games in the world are on PC (not counting mobile). You make it seem like already owning a PC capable of playing games is like finding a unicorn.
It isn't about people buying a PC to play GP. It's people who already own one. Who's saying it's the answer? It's a tandem effect.
It was fine as an upsell from Xbox Live Gold, to play back catalogue games, indies and stuff from XGS. As an an consuming beast that demands day one deals and publisher acquisitions for exponential growth, I am not so sure...
Nadella is hardly in the scumbag column as far as CEOs go, but I get your point overall.
It really just needs to be profitable to work. I don't think changing performance metrics means that it isn't profitable. I like gamepass because it links smaller games and single player games to a service and reduces the need for every game to be a gaas...since gamepass is kinda the overarching service keeping the numbers working. GAAS titles need seasons and battle passes, but gamepass just needs consistent drops where each game doesn't need to have a battlepass, etc.
If they do that I find a device that allows me to use my elite controller on ps5 and I never look back and I doubt they want that. I'll have 10 years with COD before I would have to worry about buying a Xbox again.
I don't think you can backtrack game pass without causing catastrophic damage to the Xbox brand.
