Quad Damage 1,810 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/microsoft-confirms-game-pass-cannibalizes-sales Quote The UK Competition and Markets Authority's provisional report on the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition includes an admission from Microsoft that putting games into its Game Pass subscription service cannibalizes sales of those titles. Quote "Microsoft also submitted that its internal analysis shows a [redacted]% decline in base game sales twelve months following their addition on Game Pass," the CMA noted in its report. That confirmation runs counter to claims Xbox head Phil Spencer made in 2018 that Game Pass boosts sales rather than undermines them. Quote Elsewhere in the CMA's report, it cites Microsoft as saying that Activision took a dim view on putting its titles into multi-game subscription services on any platform, believing that "severely cannibalise B2P [buy-to-play] sales, particularly in the case of newer releases." philocchio strikes again Edited February 13, 2023 by Quad Damage 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Goukosan 2,304 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 No shit, only stupid lemmings believed gamepass would increase sales. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cell 450 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Philocchio Seriously though anyone who thought otherwise was kidding themselves. Just look what iTunes and later Spotify did to the music industry and in particular brick and motor shops which only sold physical content. But Phil thinks people are going to pay for gaypass and then go out and buy the games which release on gaypass full price. Ok. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FIREPOWER 790 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Philnocchio is on a roll. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. House 3,371 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 45 minutes ago, Goukosan said: No shit, only stupid lemmings believed gamepass would increase sales. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sugarhigh 524 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Ramza said: They refer to these games as "free" and then say it doesn't hurt sales. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kaz 2,445 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 hobopass enjoyer masterrace Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Playstation Tablet 1,756 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 The issue isn't that gamepass eats away at sales of games on gamepass itself. It eats away at game sales period since the retarded userbase has been taught to avoid buying games. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FIREPOWER 790 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Team 2019 said: The issue isn't that gamepass eats away at sales of games on gamepass itself. It eats away at game sales period since the retarded userbase has been taught to avoid buying games. This is exactly what I was trying to warn retards like Ghostz and Lemij about. Microsoft has ended up killing retail software sales on their platform. Sony doesn't even need to pay AAA devs to leave Xbox at this point. AAA publishers will see Xbox dwindling sales and decide to make their games exclusive to PS. it's already happening with Japanese publishers like Square Enix. Only a matter of time before Western AAA publishers jump ship too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Playstation Tablet 1,756 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) 46 minutes ago, FIREPOWER said: This is exactly what I was trying to warn retards like Ghostz and Lemij about. Microsoft has ended up killing retail software sales on their platform. Sony doesn't even need to pay AAA devs to leave Xbox at this point. AAA publishers will see Xbox dwindling sales and decide to make their games exclusive to PS. it's already happening with Japanese publishers like Square Enix. Only a matter of time before Western AAA publishers jump ship too Motherfuckers bashing buying Octopath Traveller 2 while being happy to rent an annual Madden game. Original sold millions on Switch. Edited February 15, 2023 by Team 2019 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Twinblade★ 4,010 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 This is a no brainer but MS is likely paying publishers enough for their games to launch on gamepass that they aren’t too concerned about the sales they end up losing. But there should probably be some incentive for subscribers to buy those games though. Maybe they would b eligible for a discount on them, and in addition to that those purchasers would also get some exclusive dlc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,299 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Twinblade said: This is a no brainer but MS is likely paying publishers enough for their games to launch on gamepass that they aren’t too concerned about the sales they end up losing. But there should probably be some incentive for subscribers to buy those games though. Maybe they would b eligible for a discount on them, and in addition to that those purchasers would also get some exclusive dlc. they do have such discounts. .....and, when analyzed over the medium or long term, these games never seem to fully recover with their full retail sales. There is no long-term studies on this, so we don't know if third-party publishers still feel the same about GamePass. But I do know that Activision didn't bother to work out any deal, prior to getting bought out. We really don't know how the EA and Ubisoft partnerships are fairing on GamePass. But you need to understand, since the very beginning, we've been asking questions that TRULY ASK: "how much money is Microsoft actually generating from GamePass?" Because, none of us actually believe that this service is making huge money. Microsoft is just eating the loss, and paying out developers, because they're trying to bottom-out the market. https://twitter.com/Perlrulez/status/1625235919317110785?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1625235919317110785|twgr^|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url= Edited February 15, 2023 by jehurey 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,041 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 No shit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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