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Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil
Xbox employees are bracing for what follows more layoffs.
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Microsoft is considering increasing the price of Game Pass Ultimate again.
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Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil
Xbox employees are bracing for what follows more layoffs.
Should do it just in time for Diablo 4 season 4.
Damn, will they increase the $1 trial to $2? If so, I'm out 
If they add CoD to game pass, the monthly subscription cost is gonna as high than some people's cell phone bill.
I'm seriously curious about how much their MAU numbers will dip if they ever end those easily abused trial deals.
I'm seriously curious about how much their MAU numbers will dip if they ever end those easily abused trial deals.
Microsoft has a massive problem on their hands.
Let's assume only 20% of current GamePass users play CoD annually.
Take 20% of 34 million and you get 6.8 million users who were going to buy CoD anyways, but now will get it for free and since they were ALREADY your customers, there is no additional revenue brought in.
6.8 million * 70.... that's 476 million dollars in annual revenue... lost... again.... annually... with no improvement in subscription numbers at all.
Will that be offset by new players jumping into GamePass? I guess we could see, but that's a tremendous loss.
Let's assume only 20% of current GamePass users play CoD annually.
Take 20% of 34 million and you get 6.8 million users who were going to buy CoD anyways, but now will get it for free and since they were ALREADY your customers, there is no additional revenue brought in.
6.8 million * 70.... that's 476 million dollars in annual revenue... lost... again.... annually... with no improvement in subscription numbers at all.
Will that be offset by new players jumping into GamePass? I guess we could see, but that's a tremendous loss.
If Netflix & Disney+ are nearing $15in some nearing $25per month & movies/shows cost much much less then video games. Gamepass probably has to be near $40-$50 per month to justify day 1 AAA gamepass & even then you will need to scope games down to lower budget & morph singleplayer games to be more like Ubisoft games where singleplayer games are fill with mtx & pay to win component.
What a disaster but we’ve seen the leak email of multiple Xbox exec being worried about the scale & day 1 AAA games while also training its consumer to not buy games on Xbox.
Xbox releasing all of there games day 1 simultaneously across Xbox, PC, PS & Nintendo is very soon coming
What a disaster but we’ve seen the leak email of multiple Xbox exec being worried about the scale & day 1 AAA games while also training its consumer to not buy games on Xbox.
Xbox releasing all of there games day 1 simultaneously across Xbox, PC, PS & Nintendo is very soon coming
Even with CoD, that price level is gonna be a non-starter for most outside of CoD die hards. Imagine putting your monthly bills side to side and your GamePass bill is higher than your electricity or even your phone bill. Oof, Xbox is fucked
It's pretty easy to come down with a price of a subscription service in gaming.
You take the total revenue of an industry divide it by the approx. market share of a company and then divide it by the total addressable market then divide it by 12 to get a monthly price.
The problem for Microsoft, is that number is significantly higher than 10-20 dollars, hence why it is seen as value destructive.
Even Netflix is wreaking havoc on the entertainment industry reducing overall revenue that largely came from box office and ad revenue and why you continue to see Netflix pricing continue to increase.
You don't have people paying 150+ for cable every month to paying 20 dollars for netflix and having nothing lost. Netflix was an outsider to the industry, so they didn't give a flip, but its impacts are being felt for sure.
Big tech is taking over the industry and entertainment companies can't really afford to keep up. It's one of the reasons why I fully support Sony buying Paramount. It's only through size and scope can at least one of these companies fend off big tech's takeover. Hopefully it would be them and Disney.
You take the total revenue of an industry divide it by the approx. market share of a company and then divide it by the total addressable market then divide it by 12 to get a monthly price.
The problem for Microsoft, is that number is significantly higher than 10-20 dollars, hence why it is seen as value destructive.
Even Netflix is wreaking havoc on the entertainment industry reducing overall revenue that largely came from box office and ad revenue and why you continue to see Netflix pricing continue to increase.
You don't have people paying 150+ for cable every month to paying 20 dollars for netflix and having nothing lost. Netflix was an outsider to the industry, so they didn't give a flip, but its impacts are being felt for sure.
Big tech is taking over the industry and entertainment companies can't really afford to keep up. It's one of the reasons why I fully support Sony buying Paramount. It's only through size and scope can at least one of these companies fend off big tech's takeover. Hopefully it would be them and Disney.
In my opinion PS+ is better than GamePass.
Games wise, the additions of games every month, how they let you claim 3 games every month on top of constantly adding games.
If you're into sports games, I think gamepass is better though.
I was being sarcastic, do you remember when MS bots kept parroting this line all over the internet "gamepass is the best deal in gaming"
Honestly I don't give a fuck. I cancelled that shit when Microsoft stopped putting good games on there. The ones worth playing I can play on PC with mods and, seems as most of the gamepass games are old as fuck, you can buy them on Steam for cheaper.
My last Xbox console was the 1X. I won't buy another Xbox console.
My last Xbox console was the 1X. I won't buy another Xbox console.