eva01beserk said:
While paying millions to third party's as well. |
When was the last time it was for that cheap? I haven't seen it in a while. I doubt many of us are using the cheaper entry fee. They are making TONS of money off it per their newest financial report. There are also now 18 million subscribers as of the last call. Even if literally everyone was paying 1 dollar, that's $18 million a month or $216 million a year. But we know a lot of people are paying the full $10 for regular or $15 for Ultimate, so let's just go with conservative numbers. Let's say only 8 or the 19 million are paying $10-15 (let's average it to $12.50) and the other 11 million are only paying $1 (which I highly doubt btw). That's $132 million a year from the $1 group and $1.2 billion from the full paying group for a total of a little over $1.2 billion a year. Again, I think that is a very conservative number. And yes, I'm aware they have to offset cost of purchasing expensive studios, securing third party games on Gamepass, etc. But there are other areas they are generating money from having Gamepass. They make a LOT more money off selling PC's with windows/office 365. Historically, Sony and Microsoft haven't made much and have usually lost money for each console sold. So every console that ISN'T sold because someone bought a PC (such as myself, when I was about to buy a Series X but then decided to buy a more expensive gaming laptop), creates a lot more money for them because of all the other, non gaming software that they make money off of.
Last edited by Dulfite - on 01 February 2021
