No doubt in who is providing a better service for the consumer
I was commenting from the market perspective and what is the situation right now
Xbox didnât introduce Game Pass day 1 because of the market situation. Microsoft were market leader when they introduced Office 365. Xbox is just following corporate strategy and goals.
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We get news of USAâs numbers on Friday right ?
Yeah its a fallacy that Xbox only started Game Pass because they were losing. Subscription services follows what Microsoft has been transitioning to for a while. It lines up with their overall strategy.
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Wouldnât go that far. Phil had to fight his own team and MS themselves to implement Gamepass and didnât truly get MSâs backing until Sayta bought in.
People at Xbox and MS have said this would of never happened if Phil wasnât at the helm of it.
The more likely answer is that itâs a mixture of both. Phil knew Xboxâs name was in the mud from the moment the X1 launched and knew he needed a market disrupter to keep Xboxâs name in the fight thus Gamepass became a thing.
It being a subscription service and Phil smartly tying it to Azure cloud/subscriptions only made that much easier for Sayta to fully buy in.
Game Pass was in the planning stage during the 360 gen. But digital was still young and underdeveloped. I dont remember exactly when, but Games on Demand Day1 happend very late in the 360 life cycle. And we all know what happend to digital when Xbox One launched. Such a initiative like Game Pass needs lots of engineering (these people were occupied with other stuff in the first years of Xbox One) and also buy in from other publishers. I imagine after the awful launch of Xbox One publishers were hesitant to trust Xbox digital plans.
It is undeniable that whatever we have right now had its foundation in earlier years. Tying it to Azure was a natural and brilliant thing at the same time.
Xbox One was the console with the features that arrived too early. The whole FUD with sharing disks by PS4 would not work at all these days because with 70%+ on PS and 90%+ on Xbox for digital almost nobody shares disks anymore.
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Phil had to fight for them to invest more in Xbox, not for gamepass⌠since the whole company was already following that model.
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Good sign for the gaming industry.
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Not necessarily. The prevailing belief was the industry was going to experience a bit of a rebound from the pandemic boom. It remains to be seen if this is what is happening, or if there is a genuine decrease in consumer spending when you adjust the pandemic effect.
Did you actually read the article you posted?
Didnât they have over 50m PS+ subs 2 years ago?
Also I love how they ignore the PSnow subs. Think it was around 5 million last time. Which is pretty pitiful considering the 120m+ install base.
No I think it was 48 or around those numbers.
Now is an absolute failure thatâs irrefutable lol
Sony PS Now had 2.2 million subscribers at end of March 2020. They had 3.2 Million at end of March 2021. This is the highest and most recent number I can find reported.
Sony PS+ had 41.5 million subscribers at end of March 2020. They had 47.6 million at end of March 2021. They had 46.3 million at end of June 2021. So that was a loss of 1.3 million thenâŚ
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Cross Konami off the acquisition list, they arenât for sale. Making so much more money off this stuff than AAA games.
Also funny that people still think theyâre just a pachinko company nowadays.
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Once again people living in a bubble. From a pure financial perspective, Konami ditching AAA development was the best thing they could have done.
People wants to live in fantasy land.
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