You know, as a consumer, I only got praise for Game Pass, is by far the best new ''thing'' to happen this gen. And we are already seeing that kind of praise for Apple Arcade too
But I heard anecdotally from some dev friends that don't have games on the service, that their sales on XB1 have been hurt dramatically since Game Pass became a thing. To them, the perception of a portion of the public seems to be exactly that, one where games are not really worth buying anymore and not only they aren't buying as many games, but they don't even go on the store as often, so discoverability is also hurt in this process.
So yeah, right now we are happy, and devs that have games on services like this are really happy too from what we hear, but there are some folks worried about it as well.
I thought it was interesting to hear that kind of perspective, especially since I've been someone who's been shouting my love for the service as much as I can. One take I heard too is that if we get more and more services like this, it could even things out a bit because there will be more platforms trying to acquire content and it will give better leverage from the devs side on making deals too, so there's people from the outside that are somewhat encouraged by the model as well.
