Microsoft Has Put Themselves Back In The Game!

[sales2099]

Cerebralbore101 said:

sales2099 said:

The people who think Bethesda future heavy hitters will come to PS5 know who they are. I ain’t gonna name drop. But you know they out there. 

Hey I hear ya, right now Xbox install base isn’t enough to provide the sales that Elder Scrolls or Fallout is used to. But that’s now, the idea is to have rapid growth. New gen new start and what not.

If these games end up selling millions less BUT millions still come over to Xbox or buy it on Steam or get console/PC Game Pass then it’s a long term win. 

How is it a long term win if millions less buy the games, MS doesn't grow their console userbase by huge amounts, (causing them to miss out on 3rd party royalties), millions of copies sold have to pay a 3rd party royalty cut to Steam, and millions more users just underpay by playing the games via gamepass?

I mean, Gamepass is $9.99 a month. If somebody plays 10 games a year, then MS is losing money. That's $600 for 10 games vs $120 a year from gamepass revenue. MS could sell those 10 games at $20 a pop, and still make way more money than Gamepass.

I'd kill to see a PnL sheet from Microsoft's gaming division, that was separated from the rest of their business.

Ultimately if the game makes a profit, it matters little if they missed out on extra profit so long as millions joined Game Pass. For Steam, the way I see it these are people that have no desire to buy a Xbox so giving 30% is better then getting nothing at all. PC isn’t in competition with Xbox unlike PS. 

Otherwise I’m not gonna speculate their revenue model for GP. I just know the bigger it gets the more lucrative it gets. Whatever helps to bring them to 50 million subs, which would bring in insane revenue per month. And you can’t do that if PS5 gamers know they can “wait it out” to get their version.