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Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 2 days ago

This is some creative math. So the $20 a month people were then paying for GamePass didn’t amount for anything?

This is why the ex Bethesda guy said GamePass hurts developers. They’re making a killing on GamePass but they aren’t applying those numbers to game sales. Games on GamePass are expected to sell well outside of GamePass, so GamePass literally hurts games on the service. So who wins? Looks like just Microsoft.

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 15 points 2 days ago

It’s unclear if MS is even winning considering they’re trying to hike the price 50%, and considering that Xbox sales are flat.

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