It was a show to sell gamepass. Recently I got 26 months of gamepass ultimate for £75. It's a fantastic deal, but Xbox must be bleeding money with deals like that. For cheaper than two of their games I get access to all of their games and a ton of third party games for over 2 years. When they're currently giving away gamepass ultimate like it's nothing, their potential for profits are incredibly low.
£75... for 26 months of gold+gamepass, and a lot of that money isn't even going to microsoft but third parties... like damn.
But as I'm not an investor, great.