Microsoft Has Put Themselves Back In The Game!

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Cerebralbore101 said:

zero129 said:

Wow... Just WOW!. This whole thing really does have some Sony fans not thinking about what they are saying.

Yeah.... no way could an install base of 100+ million steam users and growing, 50+ Million Xbox users and growing, 15+ million Gamepass subs and growing and can grow much bigger now its also on android that also has an install base of over 100+ million ever make back them sales.

100 million Steam users + 50 Million Xbox users + 15 million Gamepass users < 100 million Steam users + 50 Million Xbox users +15 Million Gamepass users + 110 Million Playstation users + 70 Million Switch users. Android is irrelevant. If you seriously think phone games are good or worthwhile, then you need to turn in your hardcore gamer card.

Not to mention that Steam users often are Xbox users, and Xbox users often are Gamepass users. There's going to be some overlap there. Overlap is much less likely with Playstation users.

Finally, Gamepass isn't sustainable without drastically raising the price. If you can show me the internal Xbox numbers proving otherwise please do.

Thats the thing, there are multiple ways for MS to get the money from consumers.  Be it XCloud, Gamepass, Series X/S software sales, or PC sales, that is how MS gets the most out of each purchase.  By putting games on only those services, you will have PS5 owners in most cases finding a way to play the games even of they never buy a Series X/S.  Sure they would get money based on each sale on PS5 if they put them there, but it does nothing to support their actual goals (which is to get gamers to use one of their services).

As for gamepass, there will be a price hike overtime.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is lying to themselves.  First they will cut their losses and continue to grow the concept however, which these exclusive IPs will help facilitate.  Then once they win everyone over, they will raise the price.  But that is ok because the value is already insane, and there will still be more value to make up for the price hike as the services continue to develop.

Remember, if anyone can afford to lose money to make money in the long term, it is MS.  The fact that they are spending 7.5 billion on acquisitions tells me they are all in, and to me if they planned on bringing their newly aquired IPs to other platforms they would have said so outright, instead of dancing around it with a typical PR response.

Think about it, how do they get PS5 gamers to use one of their services?  They aquire IPs that PS5 gamers already love and make it exclusive to those services.