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AJNShelton on 02 March 2023
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EpicRandy said:
SKMBlake said:

Yeah he said "it's profitable for us", whatever that means.

Well with this statement:

  • An investor or wanna be investor might reasonably think that GamePass is profitable 
  • It is unreasonable as an investor or wanna be investor to take this statement as GamePass not actually being profitable.

So the statement is clear enough that for it to be judged as factual in nature.

We also have older news from 2020 where MS clearly stated that GamePass was "not profitable at the moment" so it add weight to those statement being accurate.

2020

2022

The thing is a shareholder wouldn't base his thoughts on Game Pass cause it's diluded in "Xbox Services and content" (or whaterver they call it), Phil saying it's around 10-15% of its revenue, and we now that Xbox Serivces and content is profitable on its own (as they had to disclose it during the Epic vs Apple case - but not the real amount).

So is it profitable on its own ? I guess paying the licencing fees to have the games on GP for a specific amount of time vs subscriptions income, the balance should be + at the end.