Thanks to vixolus for the tip.
Is this just a misquote of what he said that everyone is talking about? Because if it isn't, then it seems like there was a lot of overreaction in that other thread.
I feel like the obvious one is $70 games, then it's closing the gold conversion "loophole" for Game Pass before ever raising Game Pass' price. However, it seems like a lot of people think they're going to raise the prices on everything.
Haven't you heard? Game Pass is a trap. They get everybody on board with an artificially low price and then they double it and everybody is just stuck and can't stop paying, with no way to switch to any other platform or go back to buying games.
It's Microsoft. It is a valid concern that once they buy Activision and other publishers and make games Game Pass exclusive, you really won't be able to go somewhere else to play them.
A trap would be expecting people that already stacked months of subcriptions to pay the difference when they hike prices... oh wait, nevermind.
They absolutely would without the chip shortage. Sony and Microsoft always sell their consoles at a loss initially, but usually a year or two into the generation, they're manufacturing the consoles in such large numbers with now "older" chips, so they sell them for a reasonable amount. With the chip shortage and the rapid inflation since the launch of these consoles, they're probably still taking losses much longer that they had expected. This is why you see Sony raising the price slightly in regions other than the US, as well as the rumors that they're simplifying to one SKU with the detachable disc drive to help simplify manufacturing. I imagine we will see Microsoft raise the prices outside the US as well if inflation doesn't improve, and potentially even revise the consoles to make their cheaper to manufacture.
Microsoft makes and will continue to make too much money selling games individually to ever make them Game Pass exclusive. One of the reasons Game Pass can even exist is because they sell games individually which subsidizes Game Pass.
MS likely does higher volume. They put a lot of their Xbox chips into datacenters for cloud too.
My guess is they just lose quite a bit of money on Series S, but locking people into digital and selling overpriced storage expansion makes up for it.
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Isn't that up to Marvel at this point? You can buy Season 3 on Prime Video and iTunes. If we're comparing it to video games, I doubt physical games (Blu-ray) would even exist in this hypothetical future where Xbox releases all their games only on Game Pass.
Xbox as the platform or the console? I feel like that's an important distinction.
Okay, but that's not just a Netflix problem. Halt and Catch Fire has a single season on bluray despite running for four, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force have all of their previous seasons on dvd but never released their final season. The middle seasons of Better Call Saul are pretty hard to find bluray as well.
Right. The market for physical disc releases of TV shows collapsed faster than even the market for films on Blu-ray. It's weird to attribute that to some sort of weird refusal by studios to market their titles in that way when, frankly, studios stopped due to declining interest.
Why would they now want to sell you the game?
But that's the whole reason why Disney is investing so much money in new content for Disney+. Indeed it's why we have content overload coming from everywhere. Likewise if CoD ever did become Xbox Game Pass exclusive, which doesn't make any financial sense whatsoever by the way, then it simply leaves a huge opportunity elsewhere in the market.
"Haven't you heard? Game Pass is a trap. They get everybody on board with an artificially low price and then they double it and everybody is just stuck and can't stop paying, with no way to switch to any other platform or go back to buying games."
Yeah, that's alot more than I thought too. I think most knew it was at a loss but damn..
Yeah, kinda the ability to watch or play something is not the right no? It's been like this for ages. You are unable to play one game or another depending on the platform you own without or without subscription. And it has always been like this.
A likely big reason for this is the Euro currency heavily going down in value and MS not increasing the price of the console in Europe like Sony did.
