Gamepass Numbers

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eva01beserk said:

Kyuu said:

Okay, so everything is beginning to fall in place now:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242004/xbox-game-pass-10-million-subscribers-microsoft-q3-2020-earnings

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/21449219/xbox-game-pass-15-million-subscribers-microsoft-growth

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/451129/xbox-game-pass-subscriber-grew-37-last-fiscal-year-missing-microsofts-target/

It was below 23 million last quarter, but they didn't share because they were worried it would look like they were losing subs after that number started circulating but before Jez corrected it.

— Grubb (@JeffGrubb) September 30, 2021

From the first couple of links, it's fair to estimate Game Pass subs by the end of June 2020 to be around 13 million. With that figure in mind, a 37% Game Pass growth by July 2020 would translate to 17.81 million, which means the figure since January (18 million) was virtually stagnant (may have even declined just like Playstation Plus). This is finally starting to make sense. The rumored/hinted/whatever 23 and 30 million figures always sounded outlandish all things considered unless we assumed they were cumulative, and because of that, Phil and co are now having trouble giving us an update coz the actual numbers will sound underwhelming by comparison.

Latest MS report also paints a very sad picture. My guess is that the 30m number that was individual that at least tried it. Like the $1 deals and free 3 month trials. 

I think the number you paint might be a cut off of some required paid amount a year to be considered a concurrent sub. My guess is that it's still not a full year paid. The ones paying a full year comcurrnetly is a very small part of the 18m. 

TIL a 166% increase in hardware revenue and a 2% growth in services (versus lockdown 2020, where most companies are seeing services drop YoY) are “sad” numbers. And that 2% would have been even higher had there not been so many delays across the industry.

missing their internal goals for GamePass is not a good look on the surface, but not a big deal in reality. It was missed by like 10% and Halo got delayed.