The Game Pass is financially sustainable, says Phil Spencer -apkrig
Due to the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the first Xbox, we can expect a higher concentration of news from Microsoft or even the president of the gaming division, Phil Spencer, in the coming hours and days. After an extensive article published on its website by GQ magazine, there is now an interview with journalist Stephen Totil from the Axios portal, in which the most important parts of the gaming site were again discussed. business Microsoft. Spencer received several questions regarding the Game Pass – from the user’s point of view, a great service, within which he will receive access to dozens of older, but also completely new games for a favorable monthly subscription. But the views of developers, publishers, and critics in general may not be so hilarious when doubts are constantly being raised about whether it will pay off for Microsoft or whether it is undermining the value of video games, but Spencer has no worries.
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“A lot of people like to write that we’re burning piles of money right now for some distant goose that would lay golden eggs,” the Xbox president said, adding that this was simply not true. “The Game Pass is very very sustainable at the moment. And it continues to grow, “says Phil Spencer to all skeptics. Of course, only he knows what the reality is, but on the other hand, the whole initiative has been running long enough to allow for financial losses and disadvantages. someone he intervened and, for example, made the service more radical. If we don’t count the more expensive version of the subscription, nothing like that happened – on the contrary, other companion services, such as cloud access or EA Play subscriptions, began to stick to the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and at least outwardly, Microsoft seems to be paying the Game Pass to Microsoft. .
So if we put aside the 3-month trial period for only 26 crowns and if we consider that all players use only the basic subscription for 259 CZK, then it would be a monthly income of 4 billion crowns for Microsoft.
“I think simple math could be applied to the Game Pass,” Spencer added. Although we don’t know how many subscriber services have – the last one was officially announced at the beginning of the year, and we don’t know how much each subscriber pays, Spencer said, making a fairly informed estimate and literally to calculatewhat the Game Pass could eventually become. So if we put aside the 3-month trial period for only 26 crowns and if we consider that all players use only the basic subscription for 259 CZK, then it would be a monthly income of 4 billion crowns for Microsoft. However, this amount is undoubtedly higher, because there will certainly be a significant percentage of people with a more expensive subscription for 339 and most importantly – there are certainly no more subscribers. just 18 million. To estimate, Microsoft’s revenue from the Game Pass – excluding operating costs or fees to publishers who place their games on the platform (unless otherwise agreed with Microsoft) – can easily be 2-2.5 times higher, and we’re still having fun. on the monthly financial contribution.
Regardless of the financial potential, according to Spencer, the Game Pass is not the only thing Microsoft relies on. “It’s not the only thing that’s growing in the Xbox,” he said literally, but he didn’t add in an interview with Axios what he meant in relation to other areas. Is it the number of internal teams that has multiplied over Spencer’s lead? Number of brands that Microsoft is developing? Or just selling new consoles to end customers? It’s hard to stab him the second The important thing, however, is clear that the assurances to the Game Pass account sound regularly and very loud, that it becomes irrelevant to think of the service as a problem. At a minimum, in relation to the customer, everything works great and unless Microsoft has the urge something With a subscription to do, then we see it as a victory for both parties.
