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Xbox Will "Exit the Gaming Business" If Game Pass Doesn't Get Enough Subscribers

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17 pointsPaul_S15 comments

Old and pointless article. Since then they "won" the FTC case and purchase Activision Blizzard.

Nobody spends 70 billions only to "exit" the gaming business couple of months later.

Nobody spends 44 billion to ruin companies, either.

MS made a choice, Elon made a mistake.

Elon is an idividual, who happens to posess large operations, and runs them like personal toys that just happen to be big. MS is not and does not.

Individuals absolutely do stupid things for stupid reasons, at whatever scale they have access to.

I guess your point still stands though, since the Muskverse is not the only one like that where there is an individual owner at the top who is willing to treat the whole thing like personal disposable property.

months?

> Xbox would leave the gaming business if Game Pass' subscriber base did not significantly increase on PC and cloud by 2027

First sentence of this long and pointless article.

That sounds like great news for consumers.

I have trouble believing anything that Microsoft says to regulators at this point.

Remember when they told the European Commission that they wouldn't have an incentive to make Bethesda games exclusive to Xbox?

"at this point" was 1975

Gamepass brings in $2B> a year in revenue… that ain’t happening… and not for nothing in the same month this article was released Gamepass hit $230M a month in revenue.

Microsoft disclosed that it costs about 1B per year to keep Gamepass running tho much of it is likely only accounting as they probably overinflate the value of their own published titles for tax purposes.

This is literarily a no brainer and a “free” $1B a year for them in profit.

You have to keep these things in perspective. Microsoft reported $198 billion a year in revenue in 2022. That means Gamepass brings in 1% of Microsoft's revenue. I could see where Microsoft would consider applying those resources towards something that might make a bigger dent in their total net worth.

lol, msft is buying the whole gaming industry and will spend out of business tons of dev studios which won't be able to match the amount of resources they will pour in their own dev studios to produce georgous AAA games, which will only work properly on a real windows with dx12 (they may give some bits here and there to other platforms, for posture, and anti-trust).

pixel gfx with perfect gameplay will do so much for gamers.

Healthy food is sane, but you need comfort food on a regular time basis to avoid turing mad.

Time to get real now.

What does "Xbox exiting the gaming business" even mean? Does it mean that Microsoft will shut down the Xbox division? Do they plan to pivot into some other line of business?

Really dumb headline. It almost certainly means that Microsoft would sell its gaming unit to another company.

Can someone comment? Is this just posturing in a legal case? They're trying to protray themselves as "the little guys" in an antitrust suit.

I'm not giving this a lot of weight

Whoa! Surprising

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