Xbox Game Pass Will Continue To Prioritise 'Quality Over Quantity', Says Microsoft

Don’t make me laugh Microsoft, you are so full of it. Try releasing some new AAA in house games for a change. You even released a new console with no games.
Game pass, equals old games and indies for a subscription fee. Will not be renewing mine end of Feb 2021 for sure.

@Dezzy70 For someone who claims to have an xbox and used game pass you seem to get alot completly wrong.. Probably not the wisest place to try and spread fasle information

@Styles
Have a series X and game pass ultimate, but it does run out feb 24th this year.
If you have owned every Xbox since it all began and played all the AAA Microsoft games when they came out that you wanted to play like I did.
Then what is new, they are old games to me and that’s the truth.
Come on, they have nothing really new AAA big hitters wise until as far as we know Halo fall this year, and that is not a confirmed release date yet.
Other than that it all miles off with just game names, like Hell blade 2, Fable etc.

@Dezzy70

> Try releasing some new AAA in house games for a change.

There have been a few AAA titles with day one releases on Game Pass, such as The Medium, and a few released shortly after day one, such as Dragon Quest XI. And what about upcoming (in 2021) games like Psychonauts 2, Hellblade 2, Flight Simulator, etc.?

> You even released a new console with no games.

Unfortunately this is common practice now, isn't it? AFAIK only Nintendo's Switch released with an exclusive title, Super Mario Odyssey, in recent years — but it was Breath of the Wild, which was also available for the Wii U, that really sold the console initially.

@Dezzy70 We all get the message that your not happy with MS and GPU anymore but do you really have to mention it in every article that has something to do with Game Pass? I doubt you’ll feel the need to visit this site much now as PushSquare will have your all PS5 news covered?

You keep banging on about Game Pass having old games, The Medium has not long released, DIRT 5 which only released a few months ago is coming to GP next week, define what’s old to you? Because those are recent releases, as well as first-party games releasing day one when they do release. I’m happy to wait for the big AAA games to come to Game Pass day one while paying as little as £10.99 a month. Enjoy your £69.99 each game(s) with your PS5.

Forza Horizon 4 was my game of the generation, Forza H3 before that and H2 before that...

That's why I always loved the Xbox One. They managed to make games that really appeal to me.

@MaccaMUFC
At least over here it’s better than on Nintendo Life I will give you that.
Just watched the most piss poor gaming presentation from Nintendo I have ever seen.
It’s was pathetic.
Maybe I should give Microsoft some credit really.

@JayJ
Forza Horizon 4, is the god of racing games.
And set in the UK as well.
Playground games are amazing.

@MaccaMUFC
Will give you that for sure £70 a game is dam steep. Maybe ok for a massive blockbuster maybe like HZD2, but not for Returnal or maybe even Ratchet and Clank.
Look personally you guys here on Purexbox are cool, you make great conversation and debates and are stimulating.

@Dezzy70 no offense but it hope I'm not stimulating you right now.... just saying lol.

I get where you're coming from with the Gamepass library but I'm the complete opposite spectrum and am new to Xbox and am just swamped with gamrs to play. So really i don't care they don't have new stuff cuz i have too much to choose from currently. They do need to get a steady stream of games going asi know I'm only representing a portion of the market but i honestly think it's coming as they have so many studios. Even with covid we should get a decent amount of games this year, 2022 will be the big year fir gaming as i think a lot of delays will still be coming for announced titles. Also Gamepass isn't for everyone, just get a 3 months sub when they have a bunch of games you want to play in there and just knock them off vs spending a crap ton of cash of a few games.

I appreciate their commitment to putting high quality games on GamePass. I also have PS Now, and I don't think I've used it more than 3 times. It's just full of random crap, with something really great every now and then, but only lasts for a few months. Whether GamePass ends up increasing in price over the years or not, I'll continue to subscribe if they keep up the quality.

I think the model they have for game pass right now is fine. Its what they intended and its good value. I disagree with comments about PS Now because even that service is great value for money but I guess its down to personal preference. The old vs new games argument doesn't mean much to me because some new games are trash compared to some of the old greats we see on these services.

Putting all my cards in the table I prefer my PS because thats just how it had always been for me because the 1st party xbox games never appealed to me. But one thing gamepass has done really well for me is allow me to experiment games I might never have purchased. Some games I couldn't touch on any subscription service (lengthy RPG's) because you never know when it will be taken off. I'm actually looking forward to some of the upcoming 1st party games for xbox too and the fact that they are on gamepass day one is really impressive.

@Dezzy70 Yeah Forza is the best thing that happened to gaming IMO.

@JayJ
Hoping more for FH5 than a new Forza motorsport.
If you look at sales.
FH increasing sales over the years
FMS deceasing sales over the years

@Dezzy70 Yeah Horizon has definitely become the main game for Forza. Motorsport was a great track based racing sim but over the years there has been lots of great track based racing sims and now it just doesn't standout like it used to. Meanwhile Horizon has been slowly getting perfected over the years and it's now a truly unique game that appeals to a wider audience.

@Dezzy70 I don’t think Microsoft is going to have a change of heart from one person out of 18 million game pass subscribers,crying about the lack of new first party titles....also not sure if you’re aware of this thing called covid witch kind of paused everyone in the worlds lives and pushed back a lot of development, also not sure if you’re aware that halo infinite was pushed back because Microsoft listened to their fans instead of releasing an ugly broken mess unlike those guys at CDPR.

@Asthmalxrd
Agree with Halo being pushed back if it was not ready. The worry was they showed it and had the fans not said anything, it looked liked they were going to release the game. Additionally a company that size and with that much money, must of seriously miss managed that project and product(Halo). In the business world that is worrying.
Anyway renewing my game pass ultimate and playing Doom Eternal and Assassins Creed Valhalla. Enjoy gaming.

@dezzy70 I think halo at this point is a series they know will sell no matter what just because it’s halo,It would be nice if Microsoft made up some new IPs it really bothers me that they own rare and have yet to make a classic rare 3D platformer on Xbox one/Series given that the average gamer has evolved from the teenage boy who only plays COD,Halo,and gears that were everywhere late 2000s early 2010s ,that being said hold on to that game pass subscription, with Microsoft owning Bethesda and more series consoles rolling out (soon I hope) the exclusives will start rolling out around Q3

@Asthmalxrd
Will be interesting Microsoft strategy with Bethesda, Xbox etc exclusives or multiple consoles ie PS5 etc.
I think that will be the telling point for the future of Xbox as a console manufacturer further down the line. Why not just have all those studios Microsoft have, make games for gamepass and sell gamepass on other platforms Switch and PS5, it is so close to that you can almost touch it.
Is this the future I tell 😂