Someday they will tell us the real reasons for making Xbox games multiplatform. And I suspect they will tell us something like this:
-Game pass is a tiny part of xbox's revenue and grows very slowly.
-We are buying studios that are intrinsically oriented towards creating cross-platform games.
-Doom eternal and the vast majority of our games have much more sales potential on Nintendo or PlayStation than on Xbox.
-xbox used to be a relatively tiny part of Microsoft and whether it won or lost actually had almost no effect on the whole. We could allow ourselves some leeway. But now it is the fourth most important company in the Microsoft conglomerate and now it does matter whether it wins or loses because now it does affect the whole.
-All of the above:
A) We are going to squeeze all possible sources of income and cut everything that generates losses. Before we also did it, but before we looked at the long term, while now we do it with a view to the quarterly accounts.
B) Let's recognize that our business is making multiplatform games and get to work.
C) We are going to let the game pass languish until we finally drop it altogether. But we are going to do it with some care to squeeze all the money that can still be squeezed from game pass users.
