Yeah and people will be shocked when they make these changes and still have layoffs/closures, Lol. Look at Sony, they are having an incredible generation but they've shut down 4 studios in 4 years and have had hundreds of layoffs, how do people think Xbox is going to avoid that situation when the company which is currently pummelling them in the console market is also doing this?

Day one I'm fine with moving behind Ultimate only because I'm already on Ultimate and have NEVER been on the basic plan, also because according to the EU, the vast majority are on Ultimate anyway, I also expect Game Pass prices to rise but it's still incredible value to me so I'm willing to accept price increases to a certain point.

Like I said in my other post, there's other things that need doing too, streamlining the tiers, adding it to Steam, etc. They kill off day one releases though and I think I'm done with Xbox...Going back to having to buy stuff $70, I might as well just swap to Steam since they make everything cheap as fuck fairly quickly, Lol.

Don't know if this is your opinion Shikamaru and I'm not attacking you by any means :) BUT I need to talk about those tweets...

See, this is nuts to me; the media are all after GamePass like they know that it is the reason for those studios closing (when the whole industry is doing the same). Why do we even have this question in the first place? Other than a "PR" guy (ex-Microsoft/EA) who "claims" stuff out of his ass about GamePass not being accounted for when setting targets, why are people, all of a sudden, after GamePass like it is THE reason for those layoffs/closures. Microsoft just acquired a truck load of studios, closing some of them instead of laying off people in all studios is just expected (not a good thing, sucks for the people losing their job, but expected). GamePass has nothing to do with that...

I, for one, believe that GamePass is doing WAY more good for those studios than bad AND Microsoft leadership is NOT dumb, they are not asking those studios to sell as much (or more) than before if their games are coming on GamePass day 1. 

Every time Microsoft (Xbox) is doing something bad, everybody is panicking, starting shit like "Xbox looking after its soul" (Dumb Bryan something from IGN), etc... Even when the whole industry is doing the exact same thing.

That being said :) I think having AAA Day 1 for ultimate is okay for me as I use Ultimate. But at the end; people are all getting standard GamePass for the games, the AAA and others, so I do not see how this would be a good thing. I'm struggling to see why the question is being asked in the first place like I said.

Yeah, as far as I know it is just the one former Xbox employee who blamed Gamepass for Xbox's current woes, I haven't seen it from any known reliable insiders. 

This image got a laugh out of me, imagine Cal hitting up a Taco Bell. 

I think EA makes even less games worth giving a shit about than Ubisoft so I would have absolutely no problem never buying a game from them again.

I’ve decided to become a Nintendo stan and main the New Nintendo Switch next gen. 🙏 leaving the world of peasants behind me. #acendedtoahigherplane

PS5 Outsold Series X/S by Almost 5x Last Quarter

How do you even overcome this?

4. The PlayStation 5 has sold in 59.2 million units as of March 31, 2024.

This is slightly behind the PS4 in the same time frame (60 million). They do not expect the PS5 to surpass the PS4 in the next year.

In other words, while console hardware sales are healthy, Sony is… pic.twitter.com/ExaMQZKQfn

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