Good thing we have non-MS people who said the same thing. But whatever floats your boat.
Posted this in the other thread - Gears 5 was heavily marketed as a Game Pass game. Xbox One wasn't even mentioned in it's big ads
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UK - Gears 5 Sold a Quarter of Gears 4 Sales (Boxed Sales)/Digital and GP Majority By Far; BL3 Biggest Box Launch of the Year (Less than Half of BL2)
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Good thing we have non-MS people who said the same thing. But whatever floats your boat.
Posted this in the other thread - Gears 5 was heavily marketed as a Game Pass game. Xbox One wasn't even mentioned in it's big ads
The Outer Worlds is my most anticipated game for this year, but I'm probably not going to actually buy it 'cause it's £50 on PC and I have the alternative of just signing up to Game Pass for a bit.
If it were somewhere in the £30-40 range that used to be common for PC games before all the Pound devaluation messed everything up, I'd probably still just buy it outright. I dunno, maybe CDKeys'll come through—but if not, it's gonna have to be Game Pass.
If it were somewhere in the £30-40 range that used to be common for PC games before all the Pound devaluation messed everything up, I'd probably still just buy it outright. I dunno, maybe CDKeys'll come through—but if not, it's gonna have to be Game Pass.
If it's anything like Netflix, people will sign up intending to cancel after one or two things, but MS will aim to hook these people in once the trial period expires with the sheer amount of content there. A lot of it will depend on how rapidly they build up their library in the next 1-2 years.
I feel like an idiot now for not buying an extra year of Gold on top of the one I bought when they were offering that rollover deal.
Digital is pretty big on Xbox (even more so on PC) and Microsoft has been pushing this game with the Game Pass banner since its reveal. I wouldn't be surprised if this game had 60-70% or more of its players coming from Game Pass, which is still money for Microsoft.
Bought Borderlands 3 digitally (as usual) and it sure hurt spending £60 on it. Felt like the N64 days again.
Boxed game sales numbers become less relevant by the day. Even NPD doesn't paint the whole picture since not all pubs give out their digital sales numbers. MS likely has the data for how many people bought Gears 5 digitally or how many Gamepass members downloaded it. Those are the numbers we want to see.
Of course you would say that. More money in your pockets.
Why does it have to be one or the other? Physical media can stay around while digital and streaming continue to find their audience.
How are digital sales in this country so high. I basically refuse because the price is obscene compared to physical.
Like why the hell would I buy Borderlands 3 for £60 when stores have it for £50? I mean I'm not gonna do either because £50 is still too high.
Like why the hell would I buy Borderlands 3 for £60 when stores have it for £50? I mean I'm not gonna do either because £50 is still too high.
I imagine this will only get worse until physical and full game sales are effectively nil for these franchises. People are catching on quick that these games can be gotten with Gamepass for a pittance.
Will be interesting to see what it does in terms of revenue for developers, because while this is great for consumers (even I am a Gamepass subscriber), I can't help that it's a big net loss in terms of money flowing into the industry, what with full price sales drying up this quick. We'll see what it does to development in a few years but meanwhile everyone should reap the benefits.
Will be interesting to see what it does in terms of revenue for developers, because while this is great for consumers (even I am a Gamepass subscriber), I can't help that it's a big net loss in terms of money flowing into the industry, what with full price sales drying up this quick. We'll see what it does to development in a few years but meanwhile everyone should reap the benefits.
As a gamer the smart thing to do would be to drop sub after promo subs for 1$. But people need to sub for it to continue
Yeah I mean, actually owning something is overrated.
Like all those games I bought on the Play store that I can no longer download because reasons.
Yeah fuck that
Why does everyone keep saying promotional price, does no one think people wouldn't have used the promotions on games like forza etc? And now paying full monthly costs?
Microsoft aren't just an throw away company, there the richest In the world.
That's like saying The people who watch Netflix are using their 30 days free trial still
I never get these comments where people celebrate over others losing options over their media distribution of choice. It all feels so immensely petty.
It won't equal Gears 4 unit sales. There was ample evidence since day of Ultimate release that a lot of people were playing this on Game Pass.
Sure, but this is most unique case we've had yet: it's effectively the first title for which Game Pass sales syphoning is extremely clear. Gears 4 was a big step down from Gears 3, and now Gears 5 is down by the same factor once more. It's a huge decline even from Gears 4, so that's quite unique.
For people concerned about GamePass retention, I would imagine it's much like Netflix and other subscription services. How many people subscribe for just a month when a new show is released and cancel when done? By and large their subscription numbers show consistent growth so with Microsoft investing so much in studios I would expect them to follow a similar trajectory (pace of growth TBD).
i am not sure why would you celebrate the death of physical games, its not a good thing.
Its also the first game to really market and push GP. This is by design.
It is a good thing. Huge factories polluting the world making these games, all of the plastic required for packaging and then the transport infrastructure to deliver said games is just increasing the carbon footprint of the gaming industry exponentially.
Long live digital and long live Game Pass.
I find it hard to believe Gamepass will increase sales for big games like Gears 5 which already have a lot of exposure, but even if it does, it wouldn't be in the first week but instead long term due to word of mouth since many people would be playing it and also others that are curious about the game but not enough to buy it will try it whenever they get GP and then maybe ended up buying it.
Very happy to see Greedfall do reasonably well. Do we have an idea of numbers?
Has to have been significant. I doubt it's RoI at this point for MS, they just want to make sure they have the sub numbers going into next gen. Lock people in and keep them there.
Has to have been significant. I doubt it's RoI at this point for MS, they just want to make sure they have the sub numbers going into next gen. Lock people in and keep them there.
Anyone knows if this includes console bundles as well? Gears 5 had a custom bundle which is why I'm curious.
Yes, this basically tells all you need to know about physical.
Aye, I wouldn't have bothered with games like Void Bastards, Outer Wilds, etc if it wasn't for GP.
Or just people are less willing to buy on launch due to immediate price drops ?digital grew but in Uk last year it was around 30% if I m not mistaken
Yeah that says enough already. I mean biggest of the year and we are in september. Its not like its Feb also or something.
I think that's an accepted casualty at this point, especially when they are offering extremely cheap trials, but presumably in the longer term they're going to want to cash in big on their huge launches rather than subsidising to get Game Pass up and running.
Guessing that decent Internet infrastructure with data caps/download limits being more or less non-existent means more people will pay a bit extra for the convenience of digital downloads than places like the USA.
That and Brits don't want to deal with having to make small talk with the person behind the counter at GAME.