Call of Duty: Game Pass' Savior? | Spot On

maybe?

I dunno is spending $20 on netflix, or gamepass ultimate, or even openai worth it for a lousy month.

worst case scenario, it won't move the needle that much in terms of subscriptions, but at the same time will give many gamers pause next gen. This gen most gamers have invested in the playstation ecosystem. Next gen, there will be more gamers moving to the xbox platform, whether thats on PC or on xbox consoles.

Am I missing something? Since when does game pass ned saving?

Why would it? The folks who loves playing COD on Xbox already have an Xbox. They probably already have Gamepass and if they don't, well then you've just screwed yourself out of the $70 they were going to spend on your next COD for a few extra sign ups.

No, the needle will not move much. A lot more PS5’s out there than XSS/XSX. It’s not going to convert those players to buy Xbox. They will just buy it for the PS5. The numbers game MS will be manipulating them and mostly going off Gamepass numbers. Most Xbox users have GP by now.

I never knew it needed saving. And no, nobody is going to switch from PS to Xbox to play one game for the price of a sub. At least not enough people to increase Game Pass subs significantly. Most diehard COD players play COD and COD only. So Game Pass would be useless to them.

"Game Pass' Saviour"

Gamepass doesn't need a "saviour" since it is raking in almost half a billion dollars every month via the current subscription numbers. Like every company, Microsoft is just chasing growth to satisfy investors. CoD will still sell extremely well in stand-alone sales from long term fans. What the day one introduction of CoD to Game Pass might achieve is drawing in people who have never played CoD before, or bring back people who became disillusioned with previous CoD games. $70 might be a hard sell for a game you might not like and end up with buyers regret, but the price of Game Pass is definently easier to swallow, and if you don't like Cod, you still have plenty of other titles to choose from. In either case, Game Pass is hardly going to disappear if this experiment doesn't pay off. The worst that will happen is that Microsoft will avoid introducing big, subsidiary flagship titles to Game Pass on day one.

I have gamepass for PC. It's too cheap to not get right now. It's 100% unsustainable at it's current price unless MS is happy to just keep funding it without a return for whatever reason. You literally just have to play 2 games in a year get your money's worth.

Even the yearly CoD fan is smart enough to do the math and realize that buying the game is cheaper in the long run. Game Pass can only be profitable if the majority of consumers never cancel their subscriptions, and I can't really see that ever happening.

At this point I don't think Xbox can be saved. MS as a publisher (who buys already established properties lul) will be just fine though.

I just love how anyone could think that over 500 million every month, Every Single Month, means something needs to be saved. Yeah, 34 million subscribers as of February would equal almost 600 million. I took off 100 million just to be fair. Meanwhile on PS5, I have to figure out why I have a PS Plus Extra subscription and whether to keep it or downgrade, because they add crap, month after month.

I mean it's hard to say. Most of Xbox's biggest GamePass IPs haven't been doing great on their own service with very low player retention. And a lot of Game Pass first games have been very hit-miss.

BUT! If Activision Blizzard can lose that 10QI think they had previously. And start delivering what the fans want with its IPs. I can see GamePass subs going through the roof like Netflix back in the 2010s. And XBSX/S consoles selling better than the XB360 Did.

Game Pass is a great landing place for games I wouldn’t have cared came and gone and would have ended up playing as a retro livestream 15 years later.