If this is the future of single-player releases on Xbox, I will never buy another Xbox product. This has been a monumentally disappointing generation to be an Xbox fan, and the future doesn't look bright.

I can see it now, lets cut up that game we where going to publish into enough chunks so we make more money.

Of course that's an option. So then don't subscribe to the Game Pass. I'm clearly talking about Game Pass users. 

And no doubt the majority of games will do the same on Game Pass. But there are shows on Netflix that release one episode a week.

Once again, he's a remarkably close facsimile to a real, naturally born human. But this again shows the weakness of Spencer model pod-baby. There is no intuition. No "finger on the pulse". And as I've said, no belly-button. Awful, awful idea.

Spencer pod baby 😂😂😂

I think it's awesome. Go for it.

Is he not basically describing episodic games, where a game is distributed in several episodes, and users either buy the episodes separately and/or subscribe through a season pass or some other subscription system to receive the episodes. This is not really a new concept. However, it could work for certain games. While I prefer having the complete package right at release, I would not mind playing a smaller portion of the game that works well and is not broken and wait for them to complete and optimize the other parts (this model might be better for Ubisoft and EA, two publishers/developers that do not exactly have the best track record of releasing the most polished glitch-free experiences; MS's first party games are usually fine out of the box in my experience)

Let's offer a little more perspective, here.

Netflix is like $10 a month. For that amount, you gain access to everything Netflix has to offer. Netflix also has exclusive content. That content doesn't cost you a single penny more.

Xbox's subscription service is going to be about $10 a month. For that amount, you can download pretty much everything they have to offer. In addition to all of those full games, there may be games that only subscribers can play. Not streaming. Download. Still, only $10.

What's the problem, again? The "exclusive to subscribers" part? The episodic part? The price?

Very.  The only kind of service I would want is something like Now, allowing older games to be streamed to various platforms.  Or it would be fine if you want to make them downloadable instead.  Paying a sub for a every game to arrive in parts is horrible.  What if they feel the game isn't to their liking or that it isn't drawing as much attention as they think it should?  Are they going to cancel the game before you are done with it?  Or completely take it off the service.

It also seems like it could become an excuse to release a bunch of demos and half broken games with the premise it will be improved/finished later.  Basically a console that ONLY supports Steam's early access.

Turkish said: "Spencer spoke about the success of the games-as-a-service model, where games like Destiny are supported over the long-term rather than being released as a title that's never updated or expanded" Oh god no, I'm very scared what they are getting inspired by. I wish they just looked at Sony and said "our competitors are making big bucks with singleplayer games, we should try it too!" but nope.

That's why I want them to go 3rd party or just stick to making PC games, soon.  And if the Scorpio falls flat on its face, there's a good chance they do.  Lately, they just keep introducing horrible ideas to gaming that are completely obvious in their nature, to suck as much dough out of consumers as possible.  And Xbox fans just eat it up.  And they wonder why Xbox is in the spot it's in.