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Ryuu96 on 24 November 2022
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Microsoft is really laying everything out there to get this deal through.

They're making some very strong and well thought out arguments.

Some other interesting data in there.

  • PlayStation MAU is more than double Xbox's.
  • Microsoft left COD's marketing deal in 2015 - That's around the time Xbox was reportedly having trouble with funding, hmm.
  • Microsoft expects to lose market share in UK @trunkswd 
  • Gamepass was expected to be around 35 million in July 2022.
  • Sony is blocking games from a number of publishers from coming to Game Pass.
  • Game Pass on PC seems to be struggling, described as "miniscule" as expected.
  • xCloud seems to be underperforming in both numbers and losing money.

Love the "if you acquire Activision-Blizzard then others won't be able to put their content into a subscription service and that's unfair" from the CMA but Activision/Bobby/Blizzard are like "Lol. We hate subscription services; we would never have done that anyway"

Which was obvious to anyone who has been following Activision, they've barely touched subscription services, they've just not said it out loud until now, but it's like Take-Two, their CEO outright states that he doesn't believe in subscription services like Game Pass so it's not a surprise another large publisher also doesn't.

World of Warcraft not coming to Game Pass was obvious, as I said from day one.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 November 2022