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Also completed Ni No Kuni (again) Almost 70 hours pff.






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Ryuu96 said:

Certain Affinity Post-Activision Acquisition.

Skybox Labs

+ Fallout 76.

Both Certain Affinity and Skybox Labs were the most logical acquisitions that MS could make after the ActiBlizz deal is finished, hopefully one of the new Skybox studios can get a chance to make an original AAA game if/when MS does acquire them.



ATTENTION POSTERS

Going to do something special here.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/455125/steelrising-xs/

Since I was given a review code and have some Xbox gift card money to spare, I'm running a Steelrising or GreedFall Gold Edition code lotto for ^this comment section. Due to MS red tape, I *believe* I can only gift to another USA Xbox account. Don't have to kiss my ass or anything either lol. Feel free to just air your thoughts on Soulslikes or whatever's on your mind that's on topic (and doesn't violate rules).

Last edited by coolbeans - on 09 October 2022

Xbox made $2.9b from Gamepass subs alone in 2021 it seems. Gamepass is definitely profitable, that comes out to about $240m per month and they add anywhere from 12-20 games per month usually, most of which are cheaper indie and AA titles, and we heard they only paid $5-10m to get Guardians of the Galaxy, a 3 month old AAA, onto Gamepass. While some of the day one Gamepass deals may have cost a good bit, especially the day one AAA's like Back 4 Blood and Outriders, those are fairly rare, so even if Gamepass isn't making a profit every month it would be making a net profit over a year. Also worth noting this seems to be sub money only, if somebody uses their Gamepass discount to buy a game or DLC Xbox still gets the 30% Xbox store revenue cut on that.



Btw, if you go to MS rewards their is a card that gives you 500 ms rewards if you get an achievement in one of the ten horror themed games listed.

Activate the card => Play kill it with fire, 1 minute after you start a new game you will find a clipboard and next to it a piano. Just hit the piano a few times and achievement will pop up and easy 500 MS reward points (or easy 0,56 $/€).






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shikamaru317 said:

Xbox made $2.9b from Gamepass subs alone in 2021 it seems. Gamepass is definitely profitable, that comes out to about $240m per month and they add anywhere from 12-20 games per month usually, most of which are cheaper indie and AA titles, and we heard they only paid $5-10m to get Guardians of the Galaxy, a 3 month old AAA, onto Gamepass. While some of the day one Gamepass deals may have cost a good bit, especially the day one AAA's like Back 4 Blood and Outriders, those are fairly rare, so even if Gamepass isn't making a profit every month it would be making a net profit over a year. Also worth noting this seems to be sub money only, if somebody uses their Gamepass discount to buy a game or DLC Xbox still gets the 30% Xbox store revenue cut on that.

Are you trying to challenge the narrative that Game Pass is not profitable and bad for developers despite all the evidence to the contrary? 



You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind

coolbeans said:

ATTENTION POSTERS

Going to do something special here.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/455125/steelrising-xs/

Since I was given a review code and have some Xbox gift card money to spare, I'm running a Steelrising or GreedFall Gold Edition lotto for ^this comment section. Due to MS red tape, I *believe* I can only gift to another USA Xbox account. Don't have to kiss my ass or anything either lol. Feel free to just air your thoughts on Soulslikes or whatever's on your mind that's on topic (and doesn't violate rules).

Wanted to add a crucial update that I didn't think about until now.  Whichever one the winner wants.



shikamaru317 said:

Xbox made $2.9b from Gamepass subs alone in 2021 it seems. Gamepass is definitely profitable, that comes out to about $240m per month and they add anywhere from 12-20 games per month usually, most of which are cheaper indie and AA titles, and we heard they only paid $5-10m to get Guardians of the Galaxy, a 3 month old AAA, onto Gamepass. While some of the day one Gamepass deals may have cost a good bit, especially the day one AAA's like Back 4 Blood and Outriders, those are fairly rare, so even if Gamepass isn't making a profit every month it would be making a net profit over a year. Also worth noting this seems to be sub money only, if somebody uses their Gamepass discount to buy a game or DLC Xbox still gets the 30% Xbox store revenue cut on that.

Source is Idas though technically the source is Brazil.

More Stats.



shikamaru317 said:

Xbox made $2.9b from Gamepass subs alone in 2021 it seems. Gamepass is definitely profitable, that comes out to about $240m per month and they add anywhere from 12-20 games per month usually, most of which are cheaper indie and AA titles, and we heard they only paid $5-10m to get Guardians of the Galaxy, a 3 month old AAA, onto Gamepass. While some of the day one Gamepass deals may have cost a good bit, especially the day one AAA's like Back 4 Blood and Outriders, those are fairly rare, so even if Gamepass isn't making a profit every month it would be making a net profit over a year. Also worth noting this seems to be sub money only, if somebody uses their Gamepass discount to buy a game or DLC Xbox still gets the 30% Xbox store revenue cut on that.

And its only going to grow as more users sub.



shikamaru317 said:

Xbox made $2.9b from Gamepass subs alone in 2021 it seems. Gamepass is definitely profitable, that comes out to about $240m per month and they add anywhere from 12-20 games per month usually, most of which are cheaper indie and AA titles, and we heard they only paid $5-10m to get Guardians of the Galaxy, a 3 month old AAA, onto Gamepass. While some of the day one Gamepass deals may have cost a good bit, especially the day one AAA's like Back 4 Blood and Outriders, those are fairly rare, so even if Gamepass isn't making a profit every month it would be making a net profit over a year. Also worth noting this seems to be sub money only, if somebody uses their Gamepass discount to buy a game or DLC Xbox still gets the 30% Xbox store revenue cut on that.

So basically Gamepass has 240m subs since VGC sources tell me people only pay $1 a month for Gamepass that is some big growth.