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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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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel like this is a piece Microsoft put out there to try to make the price increase feel justified.

I have to imagine they're around the cut even point with $240/year for gamepass (given that's four "AAA" games a year). With the price hike to $360/year, they're assuming the average user would normally buy 6 games per year at full price. I just don't think that's the average gamer, but I could be wrong.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Actually remember seeing some numbers on this a while ago and I was pretty shocked at how few games the average person buys. Like median ps3 owner bought 7 games over the life of the entire console.

    From looking around google quickly it looks like the average for ps4/5 is 6-10 depending on region.

    So if someone stays subscribed to the service for the life of the console then Microsoft comes out way ahead compared to just selling games, I would guess

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, it's possible that the group who would buy gamepass arent the norm and they'd normally buy 10+ games. But even then, they'd have to be buying 10+ games a year within the gamepass library to be canabilizing sales.

    Either way, they picked a really bad time given the state of the world to be raising prices by 50%.

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