So not only are you speculating about potential price increases with nothing but a gut feeling from your own but now you are unsure whether they will keep their first party games on the service while they never even suggested it would not be the case?
And the console is like, 60% more expensive than the suggested price. Sony really wants to lose latam,. They are really trying.
They literally created a studio to do this (The Initiative)
They can absolutely turn out, the question is will the games turn out and last gen wasn't kind to microsoft's first party and it's why I am cautious about beliving they will turn out but it's all a wait and see.
Someone already said that it was the case that they were perm, I looked myself before commenting. Keep up. And yes prices will be going up It's not a matter of if its when.
They don't have 90 million Live Gold subscribers. They have 90 million monthly active users, where "users" counts anyone that logs into a Microsoft account to play a game (Minecraft on all platforms does this)
I was more just making a joke than making an air-tight "gotcha" argument. Clearly there are a variety of economic factors that go into why Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo make games in the way that they do. I do think that if he had phrased it more in a way that acknowledged that they cannot monetize their current studio output beyond an initial purchase so therefore a Game Pass doesn't make sense for them, that would have been taken better than implying that their games have such a big budget and ambitions that they could not POSSIBLY consider a Game Pass. Clearly, Microsoft has and will be spending a fricking huge budget on games that seem to be quite ambitious.
They don't have 90 mill live subscribers. They have 90 million active users. It's not, at all, the same thing.-
100 million active Xbox live users, not Xbox Live Gold members.
Best post so far. They have a successful business model and I want them making only single player games the way they do with great value for me even paying $70 for each of them.
It's funny. Every single film+television company out there is completely reorganizing their business to get into the subscription services model, and you still have people questioning the viability of that business model.
I hope u are right must because of Bethesda, Arkhane, Tango and ID. Let's see how many of these studios will still be making only sp games with no gaas elements, coop or any other online element, besides obvious online franchises. Let's see how many game stays pure sp experiences.
afaik they also had their strongest quarter last time but they barely reported profit, I think I remember reading that it was because GamePass is a massive loss for them. And will be for a looong time, but that's the thing, they're in it for the long run
I mean people willingly believe that "the service is a loss to MS" without providing *any actual proof", not even evidence. But that's fine apparently.
We actually have the numbers of the income of the gaming division. But MS does not provide the net income of that division. So we know how much money goes in, but we have no idea of how much money goes out.
