Ryuu96 said:
Wise. Recently Xbox admitted that Game Pass cannibalises sales (which was obviously going to happen at some point) and I'm assuming that some Twitter console warriors are therefore concluding that Game Pass must be bad for developers without knowing the financial agreements between Xbox and said developer, that is what I'm assuming Mike is responding to. |
Xbox have never given any real clarification on the topic but it's definitely on a game by game basis a great indie that was on no ones buy list would make it's development budget back from the sign on fee and then boost the sales from word of mouth and positive views leading to greater success but a terribly received AAA game if something like Saint's Row remake or Forspoken launched on Gamepass could hurt the sales even more as people would just play it "free" on Gamepass instead.
They also never included the most important parts of revenue + profit since unit sales is a redundant figure of success for anything except Nintendo published games such as if game sales are 10-20% lower did more people buy DLC or expansions at $15-20 or people buying the Ultimate upgrade designed for Gamepass on games like FH4+5 because they effectively got the game for free on their sub.
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