Zippy6 said:
They invested too much into getting tons of studios, and then put all the games on a subscription. The amount they were spending on creating gamepass content increased exponentially and with that the profit they were getting from each subscriber decreased. They tried to increase gamepass to $30 to fix this and there was a mass exodus of subscribers. |
I disagree, the justification for the 30$ was because of adding stuff like Fornite battle pass thing and Ubisoft games. Asking people to pay more for what they not wanted let to people unscribing.
This discussion is old but goes back to 2021 when we had all those discussions in this thread. I literally posted pictures of stores in Europe barely having any Xbox section in stores and some none. Some said it doesn't matter but it does, because to sell gamepass you also need to sell Xbox consoles, if users go to the competition then you will have a hard time to win them over ever again. It is only getting harder when the number of subscribers hardly go up.
Investing and controlling what studios do, if project like Outer worlds are barely succesfull why go for an Outer Worlds 2? It was written in the stars it would be hard to sell and even on xbox (Trueachievments) less than 25% who played Outer Worlds gave the sequel a go. What if they made Fallout New Vegas 2 instead would that not have been way more succesfull? Make it exclusive or atleast Time Exclusive and it would have done wonders.
The last 5 years they barely did anything to make their ecosystem attractive.
