I am not a gamepass subscriber so maybe I don't quite get it, but PS Plus has something like 47 million subscribers without day one, with barely any day one third party really (they get the occasional indie). Gamepass has a better line up of third party, they have in theory great first party coming out, and yet Parris and others talk about how it would just collapse if CoD wasn't on there. Is there a reason why gamepass can't just be a better version of Plus and have most first party with the occasional skip? (namely CoD, but Elder Scrolls as well, etc etc).
If Phil came out and said sorry, we can't make CoD work on gamepass financially, but it will still continue as normal in every other way, would that really change much?