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curl-6 on 07 July 2025
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smroadkill15 said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah for all the hype about it being the "best deal in gaming ZOMG" Game Pass always sounded unsustainable.

It has ultimately failed to be a system seller, and it has trained the Xbox userbase not to actually buy games, which gives devs less incentive to release their software on the platform.

I understand it's a popular time to dog pile Xbox, even if its unrelated to the layoffs, but it should be important to note this is all this devs opinion, not a fact the service is unsustainable. 

Way less 3rd party games are skipping Xbox than any previous generation. Franchises that were never on Xbox or had sparse releases are coming to the platform fully like Persona (thanks to Game Pass). Helldivers 2 is even coming to Xbox and has a good chance to be a top 10 seller on Xbox by the end of the year. 

It's not just one dev, a lot of people have voiced concern over Game Pass, from Larian's Michael Douse, to Jumpship's Dino Patti.

MS themselves have admitted in the Activision merger case that Game Pass cannibalizes sales: https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-admits-game-pass-cannibalizes-sales