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Well of course not. These game studios were selling games at 60-80$ each. Microsoft bought them, then started providing the all the games for a flat fee of 15$ per month.
I assumed their strategy was to lose money in the medium term while they worked on getting people used to playing games on subscription. Where they make their money back is when they stop outright selling games at full price and make them only available on subscription, and then they slowly start increasing that monthly subscription cost.
In order for that to work they need a large library and like 5-10 years.
Turns out corporations can manage long term planning when the plan reduces quality of life for customers. Crazy!
No joke, their plan was to have 100m subscribers so the economics start making sense
It's $9 for the standard Game Pass, and was $1 a month until they stopped that last year sometime.