Gamepass is profitable

[Sephiran]

xboxgreen said:

Sephiran said:

I think if Xbox has a lot of franchises capable of selling 30M+ copies per game, then gamepass would be less profitable for them than the traditional model of selling games. But the reality is they don't have such games, and their AAA games like Indiana Jones would likely sell about 1M copies, which means they don't have any posibilities to follow any other model than Gamepass for their games.

Hardly anyone has 30m+ franchises without relying on bundles / heavy discounts. Cod, GTA, Sports games are pretty much it unless we count F2P games.

Nintendo has tons of games that sell 30M at full price, Mario Kart, Super Mario, Zelda, Smash, Animal Crossing. Had Xbox had those kind of sales, gamepass would just be throwing money away. But the reality is gamepass is their only option now. If you don't make big budget games that tens of millions of people are willing to pay full price for, the best other option you have is to get them to subscribe instead.