Machiavellian said:
I believe they need more studios so that they can have at least one AAA per quarter every year. If we think about development time to market 3 to five years for AAA content sometimes even more. In order for GP to reach a growth where it can continue to fun big games, it must pump out high quality content to retain subs and increase the sub base. I hear a lot of gamers talk about GP will bring down the quality of games but that really does not work for a subscription service. When quality drops so do the subs. When quality drops, you cannot expand your sub base. In order to reach a sub amount where GP prints money, MS must improve GP to around 150 million subs. Quality sustained content on a timely fashion I believe is the only way to achieve this goal and the content has to be varied to attract a diverse gaming group. |
Reasonable assessment. They should have the studio count for plenty of content, but who knows, perhaps a bit more could further the ship's correction. GamePass is definitely a bread-and-butter product, so they'll continue to nurture that for sure.