Gamepass is profitable

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Mnementh said:

SvennoJ said:

That's not what all the continued layoffs are suggesting...

But indeed, profitable and sustainable are two different things when the goals are "line must go up faster" (and chase the next trend, AI) 

Gamepass is simply not doing good enough to keep the XBox business safe. The game business side is less stable now...

It's rather that Satya Nadella doesn't care about gaming. Xbox downfall is the acquisition of Activision, because CoD is a profit monster, which makes the people at MS wonder: why support games that have 5% profit, if there is one that has 15% (or whatever are the numbers).

Gamepass is profitable and sustainable. It is just not as crazy money generating. Instead MS wants to bet everything on AI.

While I understand why some may not be happy with the ABK merger completely shifting Xbox's strategy, I believe there was a very real possibility of Xbox being shut down or sold if the ABK merger didn't go through. We already know Sayta was wanting to pull the plug on several occasions. It might be why Phil and all the team were so insisten on getting the acquisition through.