VGC has it at over 500k and ZhugeEX mentioned that the majority of SoT sales are digital and it's MS fastest selling new IP this gen so it definitely should be between 1-2 million.

1st part of your post,

Or.. it might show that maybe this game made this feature (GamePass) successful. Which one is it to you? 

2nd part of your post,

No its not. This is related to SoTs and its player count. I am staying on topic with this. (No one in this thread or in other threads stated that the X1 is more successful than the Switch or PS4.) That doesnt make something a failure either.

Spot on. Either SoTs is successful or it helped make GamePass successful.

Yeah I think its obvious that games pass is the future that Microsoft is wanting to follow now, so sales figures are not their priority, pass users are. Rumours about them making a game pass type console along with a standard console next gen makes sense.

for sure they say that everytime they can because of this you will get a streaming and a normal console in the next generation.

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5 million players is awesome for this new ip

Gamepass already existed before SoT so SoT having good numbers because of it (and we can't even pin point how many just signed in the month for any reason, played the game and left) doesn't mean SoT is the cause. But we do know you have issues with cause and consequence.

I guess there are people still waiting for your reply on the MS FY thread.

You did. When you pointed that success was subscription and that MS with less than half HW sold had about equal subs to PS+ (but you sure never got over the fact that their subs were gold+silver+ms+switch minecraft).

Not to downplay or anything but free Gamepass trials are available no matter when you start it. A Gamepass user included in the stats is not necessarily a paying Gamepass user. All 38 million XB1 owners have access to a free Gamepass trial.

No matter what, Sea of Thieves reaching 5 million players is great news.

I'll keep longing for solid numbers to return to this industry though. I don't like all the secrecy and vague PR talk. Of course focussing solely on actual sales numbers doesn't make sense when we talk about games such as Fortnite (free to play) and Sea of Thieves (games as a service).

Here, frequent updates on the amount of concurrent players would tell us more about a game's continued health and long term success. Unfortunately, we don't get numbers on concurrent players either.

Pokémon Go has reached almost 1 billion players but that doesn't tell us much about its current active users (now under 5 million daily).

You know GamePass is a monthly subscription correct? You also know Sea Of Thieves requires Live Gold membership as well correct? (Not sure with PC) and both have been out for months so those free trails cant all be come and go gamers. So even (if) many used GamePass as a free trial to play SoTs, those so called gamers have to be subbed to Gold so either way its money.. unless you are claiming that majority of those 5m players are PC gamers which you probably will, wont surprise me. Than we have a first with a Win10 game outsells Console version..

SoTs seems to be delivering to Xbox's ecosystem by advertising Gold and also advertising GamePass. MS make money either way you see it. Something you seem to hate to admit.

5m players is a very good number for those who even just demoing the game. Maybe you need to start realising this method. Xbox doesn't need to rely on physical sales to make money and if you think MS isn't making much on Gold members than answer me this, Why did Sony and soon to be Nintendo copy the exact same methods of a paid subscription model? Keep an eye out and watch Sony copy MS's method of GamePass in the near future.

Just like Blizzard who don't announce how much they make on there subscribers, much like the majority of digital sales in general. These numbers, companies like to keep close to there chest. Don't ask me why. 

As for your 2nd your part of your post, I am not interested in debating with you about another threads debate which I clearly claimed I am done with.

We don't know the breakdown so no one can claim one way or another. And this isn't 5M concurrent users. So considering 30+M of Xbox owners have free trial, many may have tested SoT without bringing revenue to MS.

If the concurrent number was really high they probably would say it.

See my first post here, saying the 5M is a good number, but I would like to see sales or concurrent for it.

We wont know and MS have no interests in telling us. There business model is Pro digital and online and play anywhere features. We can say that SoT gamers have to be Gold Members and 5m different accounts to play a game is still a very good number.

They maybe come and go gamers but I wouldn't say majority would sign up for GamePass just to unsubscribe over one game. SoT's brings them in and other games keep them to stay. Its a smart business model. Plus when subscribed to GamePass it also gives you digital discounts and we wont know how many Subbed to GP, brought the game digital for the discounts either. So take the bad with the good as well.

As for how many games it actually sold? Well I have been logging into the game the past few days and I see players everywhere. To me that's more important than actual sales that doesn't add to the community. Its too hard to read these numbers on such a huge ecosystem with many ways to play and buy the games. Hence the change of strategy.