After killing his $1 Xbox gaming deal at the end of March 2023, 3 months later, he reversed that resolution and brought the deal in once again. But with a replacement for the pass of the game as a whole.
Currently, in fact, you can get the first month of Xbox game pass for $ 1 if you make the Ultimate game pass ($ 17 consisting of the month later) or the PC game pass ($ 10 consistent with the later month ). The game passes the prices of the console $ 11 consisting of the month and has no contract in dollars.
However, there’s now an additional replacement where you can no longer convert Xbox Live Gold to Xbox Game Pass at a 1:1 ratio, which led to a “stack” for extended use. Now it’s a 3:2 conversion, so 3 years of gold would be two years of adjustment play. It’s not as beneficial as it used to be.
I am curious about the timing of this. Was the pause on the $1 deal always temporary, or did Microsoft see disastrous sign-up numbers for a quarter and realize they should reinstate the deal? Microsoft has long not reported any more console sales, but they also have not reported any Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers since January of 2022 when they revealed it has 25 million subs. Growth appeared to be slowing back then, and you would think they would have announced when it hit 30 million, but it’s unclear where exactly subs are right now. Microsoft reports that Game Pass is profitable, despite speculation, and in FY21, it reportedly brought in $2.9 billion in revenue, and is 18% of the total Xbox business.
There is also some other time facet. Starfield is about to be launched on September 6, in just two months. And now, as an exclusive Xbox property, he presented the first day in the game’s pass. This means that you can get an Xbox game pass for $ 1, play Starfield for a total month and then cancel. Or the worst case, pay $ 18 to play for two full months and then cancel. Of course, he has the perspective that is played much longer than that, given its size, but I suppose Microsoft doesn’t really need other people to do this. Although this has been a threat to the game of the game and a $ 1 agreement to the first month, Starfield is probably the largest launch of this generation. And keep in the brain that it is a game that would probably have sold without problems from $ 10 to $ 70 to $ 70 otherwise.
We’ll see if Microsoft re-reverses course and gets rid of the deal again later, but they probably will not do so before Starfield is out, given how close it is. And when are we ever going to hear about actual subscriber numbers again?
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