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There were no concrete Xbox game pass numbers tbh. 150 million hours played is all we were told. Otherwise overall Gaming benefitted from third party publishing. MS Gaming was no .1 publisher on playstation for preorders.Xbox Game Pass is strong:
Microsoft reports strong cloud growth in Q3 earnings
Cloud is once again the star of Microsoft’s show
Gamepass' growth has shifted from console to PC. Those hours streamed also indicate a growth in cloud, but PC for sure has seen an uptick. "Nobody" might have used it in the past, but plenty more are using it now. And likely more in the future. They've essentially hit their saturation point with Gamepass on console.
The cool thing about percentages is that they obscure actual usage. The people using a given service can go from 100 to 200 and that would be a '100% increase'. Notice how Xbox execs exclusively deal with percentage increases, and weird fake metrics like 'hours streamed this quarter'? Microsoft doesn't charge by the hour so if anything this is a bad thing lol, every hour streamed is a cost, the ideal subscriber is one that never uses the service (btw this is the only thing that keeps subscription services afloat).
Because gamepass is housed in an entirely separate app? You’d have to maintain two libraries which historically people are rather opposed to on PC (see: Epic Games Store).
Riveting discussion, literal Xbox ad copy lol
Yes you bring up valid points. My money is on their PC space seeing more growth as well the third party publishing on consoles. Them not releasing Xbox gamepass figures isnt a good sign for the service. Alternatively maybe they dont want the highs and lows to influence their strategy for Xbox Gamepass. Maybe its performing well but they want to insulate it from market sentiment.
But it's also relative metrics. 30% growth could be from 5 million PC subscribers to 6.5 million, or from 10,000 PC subscribers to 13,000 or even from 10 users to 13. We have no indication how many are streaming on which platforms, and MS won't give that info.
We don't know whether it's 'plenty' or 'some' or 'a few'!! Without a single defined count ever given, we can't compute all the growth figures into an actual number.
Last quarter they announced 140M hours, this quarter 150M hours. That’s about a
Is that more people streaming, or the same number of people streaming more?
Either would be good. You definitely want people playing more instead of people just playing in passing. At least imo, it speaks to the actual value of the service as being an alternative to owning hardware as opposed to being a stop gap.
In just a few months, MS has released Indiana Jones, Avowed, South of Midnight, and Towerbone. And they're going to bring back IPs like Ninja Gaiden, Perfect Dark, and Fable. Games are getting worse (EA, Ubisoft etc), but not all games are in the same boat. And on top of that, there's the success of Expedition 33.
They are relatively good metrics, though
Also...
Yes, still relative numbers. But that's a pretty big percent to growth. And it tracks what I said earlier, that Gamepass' growth is coming from cloud and PC because they've reached a near saturation point on console.
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What a joke of a generation honestly, who can honestly say Xbox is doing well here?
Probably wiaiting official confirmation but it seems price will increase by 50 euros in Europe.
Official:
Here's how much a new Xbox will cost you after Microsoft bumps prices
Microsoft confirmed to us today that it is increasing the price of Xbox consoles, accessories, and later this year, games as well. Here's what you need to know.
EDIT: Xbox Games will be 80 dollars too
You can play on their platform on any laptop, any old xbox one, any mobile devices, Samsung and LG TVs, as well as being able to buy a cheap amazon kindle fire and play off that as well. On top of selling their titles on Xbox Store and Battle.net, they own some of the largest GaaS properties in the industry today.
