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Xbox games in Game Pass ‘can lose 80% of premium sales’, it’s claimed [VGC]
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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That’s… the point? That’s also why MS (allegedly) pays big devs so much to be on the platform
the article is mostly reporting on "a Q&A on the InstalBase forums" with "business journalist Christopher Dring". The headline kind of makes the 80% figure sound like a bad thing, but I think it's more meant to share info with the public that industry insiders already know about. No producer working at EA is shocked by this figure, but the headline is not for them. This info is still helpful for many groups, like maybe new devs who aren't yet industry insiders, but need to know what they are getting into before they sign a shitty Game Pass deal with Microsoft.
Makes sense! It’s news worth sharing, I just wasn’t really surprised 😆 especially with how Netflix and Spotify decimated their respective industries