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Dulfite on 26 January 2022
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Kyuu said:
Dulfite said:

Well, not sure who will win the sales totals of the big boys, but I'm certain Nintendo will win the profit/revenue as they won't have to put their games on sale or permanent price reduction 3-6 months after launch to keep them going like other companies do. We still don't have Select games from Nintendo 4.5 years after launch, so let the profits keep coming!

Plus, MS will be limited by how many play it on Gamepass instead of buying so this isn't exactly fair.

I agree on Game Pass hurting sales overall (especially for popular/established games) but Phil Spencer and his faithful followers beg to differ:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-13-phil-spencer-game-pass-leads-to-more-game-sales

You know what else hurts sales? Sony new pricing policies. Their games are much more expensive in EU than Microsoft's, and nearly twice as expensive if bought digitially (GP gives you a digital discount).

GP is the bread and butter of Series XS as far as value and hardware sales, so while it should hurt software sales directly, it ultimately increases them via the combination of a larger hardware install base and word of mouth. The increase is in comparison to a GamePass-less Series XS with a smaller install base. Then again, now that MS finally has a strong roster of exclusives, GP is no longer required to sell over 70 million consoles lifetime. I'm curious to see how MS will handle CoD and TES6 when the effects of Game Pass are made clearer.

Yeah I'm a firm believer in the subscription model for companies. That is the future and that is how you expand the market, rather than retain it at it's current cap (~300 million consoles per gen).