Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers. Core/Gold numbers included.

DForce

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So they just waited a week just to find the right words just to damage control the situation. lol
They know the Xbox faithful are only going to pay attention to "34 million" and "4 games" and celebrate. This will buy them some time until the games outside of the 4 games get released.
 

Yurinka

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So there where 25M GP subs and 9M players who had Gold but not GP, and combined they are now 34M.

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Nhomnhom

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So, they were in a position where they had already got away with charging people for paid online but decided to pivot to the Gamepass business model.

That required them to include all their games day 1, reduced the sales of all games on their platform, requires them to keep paying other publishers and ultimately lead them to spend over $80B in acquisition in a few years.

All to end up with 34m subscribers (many of them paying less then $9 a month) and a service that has completely stagnated.
 

Nhomnhom

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New Spin

Gamepass is as big as The Last Of Us 🤭

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Gamepass core don't need to convert they can stay at core dumbass 🤡
Gamepass isn't even as big as TLoU TV show.

We are close to year 7 and it turned out to be a completely unprofitable business model that destroyed their platform and dragged MS into a spiral of acquisitions to try and make it work and still it hasn't worked at all but instead it stagnated and collapsed.
 

ethomaz

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IT'S NOT GROWTH

25 mil was the last reported figure. 11.7mil users had XBL gold and were automatically converted. 34 million GP users including conversions were reported.

IT'S A DECLINE

THEY LOST 2.7 MILLION USERS
T be fair Gold was in big declive (-34% in the previous quarter)… it won’t be surprise if they lose some million before the forced conversion.

Uncle Phil said most grow come from PC.
 

Darth Vader

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Remember, Xbox internal goal was 100m suscribers 5 years from now.

That is the vision Phil Spencer sold to Nadella before spending over $80B in acquisitions and piling up loss after loss.

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A visionary.
 
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Can anyone explain to me what the Xbot logic behind GP being super successful is considering it has <50% of the subs PS+ does?
 

ethomaz

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Here Uncle Phil explained.



If you believe Phil PC Gamepass was what more drive the 9 million grow but part of it was indeed Gold to Gamepass.