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ConservagameR on 23 September 2022
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smroadkill15 said:
ConservagameR said:

Will they remain cool games if Game Pass doesn't take off and make back the $70 billion quickly, along with enough profits to keep the beast fed?

MS is paying for this acquisition so they will have made the money they spent on the acquisition by the time it goes through. They would also rather invest in something than let the money sit and do nothing. Why does Game Pass need to make the money back quickly? They are clearly playing the long game. It could take 15+ years and they are likely cool with it. 

MS had that $70 billion cash in their pockets, so no, they didn't need to make that money to make the purchase.

Unless XB exists just to be a subsidy for MS, making money back slowly is bad business for someone in MS's position.

If MS were fine with outrageous XB subsidies and didn't care how long the payback took, why have they waited 20 years to go big now?

Simplest answer to me is that they aren't planning on taking forever to pay it off. How that plays out will be the interesting part for XB owners.

shikamaru317 said:
ConservagameR said:

Will they remain cool games if Game Pass doesn't take off and make back the $70 billion quickly, along with enough profits to keep the beast fed?

Honestly, I really don't see how Gamepass couldn't take off with the full might of the soon to be 34 Xbox 1st party studios (and I believe over 50 individual teams within those 34 studios) releasing games onto Gamepass day one. There should be a steady stream of 1st party content flowing into Gamepass once Xbox gets their 1st party machine properly started up. Then you've got the fact that Xbox makes quite a few 2nd party exclusive deals, plus quite a few 3rd party day one Gamepass deals as well. Starfield in 2023 and the first CoD allowed by contract to be day one Gamepass (2025 or 2026) in particular should be huge Gamepass subscription drivers. 

I don't think many saw the XB Series S coming, the console shortages, the much more positive MS PR and more negative Sony PR, etc.

There's so many variables that assuming it's just going to succeed because it's MS or a Netflix like product, isn't looking broad enough. That's not saying Game Pass can't succeed, because it could, but it's sure taking it's sweet time to get there. If AB doesn't increase the momentum considerably, then MS has their work cut out for them, and then some.