Barkley said: They'd need 6.2m people to subscribe to gamepass for a year just to cover the revenue fallout 4 alone made. They will keep releasing Bethesda titles on other systems because they need the revenue it brings. The only other alternative is to raise the price of gamepass. |
MS know how to play the slow game. Gamepass will rise in price after they build a solid userbase.
They recently raised the price of Xbox live Gold.
Other companies slowly increase the price of their popular subscriptions too.
Netflix for reference.
Nov 2010- $7.99, <20.5m Subscribers
May 2014- $8.99, 47.99m Subscribers
Oct 2015- $9.99, 70.84m Subscribers
Oct 2017- $10.99, 110.64m Subscribers
January 2019- $12.99, 148.86m Subscribers