Xbox Game Pass Profit Talk Set Right by a Writer
Business writer Chris Dring says Xbox Game Pass does make money, even when you think about the sales they lose on games they make that are on this service. This clears up past news that mixed up how Microsoft sees if the service makes money.
The Changing Tale of Game Pass Making Money
At first, people said that Game Pass counted the cost of paying other game makers, marketing, and servers, but not the lost money from not selling their own games. Dring had info from 18 months back saying each game studio at Microsoft had its own money reports.
But after his first words sparked a lot of talk, Dring came back to say that new sources told him even with lost game sales counted, Xbox Game Pass still makes money.
How It Hits Game Sales and the Whole Game World
Even though it makes money, how Game Pass hits sales is still much talked about. It was thought that games might lose up to 80% of expected full-price sales on Xbox.
This shows in big games like Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Starfield not doing well in sales when they came out. This has made Xbox sell its best games on other places like PlayStation, where they can make more money directly.
The setup has also gotten bad talk from people who make games. Rafael Colantonio from Arkane studio thinks that these kinds of plans hurt the whole game world.
A Hard Money Setup
This shows a hard plan for making money. Even though Microsoft's own look at the numbers may show Game Pass as making money, how it changes how games sell and how much money makers get keeps a lot of talk going in the whole game world.