It's a good point but I kinda feel like Spencer killed it even more ...
Matt Piscatella: Sub. growth has flattened & sub services account for only 10% video game spending in the US. |UP| Still stagnant & stalled.
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I wonder how many people who played hundreds of hours of Baldur's Gate continued subscribing to Game Pass barely using it for months. As they raise the price, that fucking stings.
Honestly, Steve Ballmer killed Xbox by approving the money hats and shoddy hardware of the 360 in pursuit of first-mover advantage and a desire to show up Sony.
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Just think of how many people who don't really use Netflix still pay monthly for that, all subscription services just hope you never bother unsubscribing, which is why they more often than not make the process a bit more tedious than users would like.
Speaking of BG3, a few weeks back in December I saw a review by a steam user that basically said : This is the best game ever. Her time played? something like 1.1k~ hours. That's around 45 days played... The game came out in August, lmao.
Fuck him. Sold his soul for clout.
Yeah it's honestly sad. I used to respect him because i thought he didn't bullshit and was a straight shooter but it turns out he just spews bullshit unapologetically so it sounds genuine
I'm going to copy/paste the post I did about this. I posted the tweet first but the thread died lol
I should have started this thread
Basically they thought they could bully and scare Sony into becoming Blockbuster and bankrupting themselves.
yeah 100%. i'm on my 2nd playthrough, well over 300 hours since august. if i'm not playing that, maybe i'm dipping into The Finals, but more likely Rocket League or Spelunky 2. there aren't enough hours left for gamepass to add any value. there's like 20 other aaa games I can play if i finally get bored with bg3. i'm only like 30% into Elden Ring.
If I have to give Jim Ryan credit for anything it's that he navigated the threat very well, maybe not perfectly but well enough that they actually came out of the gamepass push doing better than ever financially/console saleswise.I'm going to copy/paste the post I did about this. I posted the tweet first but the thread died lol
I should have started this thread
Basically they thought they could bully and scare Sony into becoming Blockbuster and bankrupting themselves.
He didn't panic, but he didn't sit around either. He spent enough time and thought to craft a strong counterpunch to gamepass that, while still damaging their game sales a little, prevented the collapse of the b2p model and stopping gamepass momentum in its tracks. On top of that it completely revitalized PSNow and they're making a bunch of extra revenue now.
*edit* we're famous lol
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Now give me Gane streaming to my Portal and the world may be mended.
Better is that way. Game ownership is the only way
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Yes to all of that. And he was right about the Series S and the "we believe in generations" too. He stood strong even with all the attacks from MS in the media and the online discourse.
Horizon Forbidden West had to suffer because of it tho
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I see you Mat
Yes to all of that. And he was right about the Series S and the "we believe in generations" too. He stood strong even with all the attacks from MS in the media and the online discourse.
Horizon Forbidden West had to suffer because of it tho
I see you Mat
Jim surely knew when it is time to something to say in the media
Which means subs are worth 20~ billion a year? That's a significant amount.
If Xbox earn 50% of that, while never having to eat the cost of R&D and hardware, is it game over for Xbox? If they expand the reach of gamepass and earn a few more percent of 20 billion, then it isn't a bad business decision.
Fwiw I hate streaming. Mobile games and their consequences have been a disaster for the console industry.