Xbox Game Pass made $230 million revenue in one month, most users pay for full subscriptions (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 11 months ago by mintiefresh@lemmy.ca to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

You can still buy 100% of the games on gamepass. I don’t see Microsoft stopping individual sales as I’d expect that action to draw the attention of regulators

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure you get a discount on them for being a game pass subscriber too. At least in some of them

[-] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Those discounts are nothing as compared to buying used.

I so hope that the next consoles will have disc drives..

[-] Matt@lemdro.id 9 points 11 months ago

Considering Microsoft is supposedly releasing a new revision of the Xbox Series X and S next year without disc drives, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Given the direction the industry is moving, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PS6 and whatever Microsoft calls the next Xbox are all digital only.

[-] Callie@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

My money is on Series Z(ed)Xbox

[-] tal@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I'm a little fuzzy as to why the first-sale doctrine exists for physical goods but not for digital goods. It seems to me that any reasonable economic rationale should affect either both or neither.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The Series S and Game Pass have shown that people like discounts; so either competing console is going to run into issues attracting customers if they never offer them in any form. That’s currently an issue for the Nintendo eShop.