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Napkin math suggests that if they reached the goal of 40 million users, they'll net 7.2 buh-buh-billion buckaroos from game pass alone!

Definitely throw one of those billions back into the machine! Heck, throw a couple.

I really thought BG3 was going to be a game pass launch this month. Sad 😞

@CHAOSbutler117 They’ll shadow drop Baulders gate 3 mid month. Mark my words.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I get that it's a cash cow, but idk man they've entered into a 10+ year continuity agreement with Sony.

It could be a great move for MS to move some Call of Duty resources/studios away from CoD and into content that can be exclusive to Game Pass (Crash, Tony Hawk, etc). Turn CoD into a 3 year release cycle, have those games be more impactful, give Sony less of that comission money, and put more content exclusively onto MS's platform.

The question is: Does Call of Duty make TOO much money as a yearly release to mess with its release cycle?

@awp69 Totally agree. Philly boy specifically said -

"We have no goal of somehow trying to use Call of Duty to get you to buy an Xbox console"

Not

"We have no goal of somehow trying to use Call of Duty to get you to buy a Game Pass subscription"

The latter would be a complete lie and at the moment, GP drives Xbox console sales and vice-versa.

Alright. Still holding out hope for a secret 60 fps performance update on series x. I know this is Bethesda we're talking about, but a man can dream

If Sony caves and streams game pass on their platform one day (Something I'm sure Microsoft has in the platform's roadmap) then they will remove console exclusivity. If, a few years later, Game Pass runs natively on Playstation through a PS service-tier, then that further removes console exclusivity.

Solar Ash is a nice W for gamepass! I love everything Heart Machine puts out.

Love me some short hike

Man September can't come fast enough. It is shaping up to be one of, if not the best month for Game Pass ever.

Starfield, Lies of P, PayDay 3, and Cocoon are all must plays, and we don't even know what the other 6-8 games are going to be for the rest of the month!

I was expecting an F, so exceeding my expectations and handing a solid C transformed this show into a respectable B

@armondo36 Dude I've been feeling that kind of way for years. The Peter Moore and Don Mattrick eras of Xbox heavily relied on exclusive content partnerships to drive value to their products. Their top tier IPs (besided Halo) were developed via partnership. (Forza, Gears, etc.)

Their in-house studios? Horribly mismanaged.

Bungie was Microsoft's lone bright spot of consistency, but MS would buy and fumble so many studios (Lionhead, Rare, and Ensemble to name a few).

Point is, I don't think they've ever been good at team building or management within Xbox. My biggest hope from their Activision Blizzard deal is that MS will finally gather some decent studio heads to help make their other teams more efficient.

Who would they sell it to? Amazon? Apple?

@Kaloudz Totally agree. I'm sure they'd take exclusivity if they could, but MS knows that getting every person alive onto gamepass is the real endgame. They don't need exclusivity for that to happen.

@stvevan but what if it doesn’t? That’s what these comment sections are for, right?

“What if Nintendo bought Ubisoft?” That’d be crazy, let’s talk about it instead of disparaging each other for commenting on a comment section

Wow. That is a LOT more confidence in Starfield than I expected

I’m excited for Redfall, but holy ravioli - Xbox has announced a lot of exclusives.

Hopefully 2023 gets at least one more beyond the trifecta of forza, starfield, and redfall.

My boy Phil is playing chess while the world plays checke- I mean, Call of Duty

@J_Mo_Money Same. I just finished replaying dead space 1 to get in the right headspace for the remake

The fact that this is launching after Callisto Protocol is a blessing in disguise for the devs. There were a lot of complaints there. Motive can just implement the easy critiques of that game before DS's launch.

Make cut scenes skippable, tune the run speed, and dedicate a few more slots to item storage. Boom. You're golden.

@fraserG Could you create a complete timeline article that goes through all of the highs and lows of the Activision Blizzard deal? Update it whenever news like this drops.

I'm always first in line to read these articles, but there have been so many bumps in the road that its hard to keep track of it all

Is there a way Microsoft can pull out of this deal? They're buying Activision Blizzard above its pre-recession value, and Sony and various commissions are forcing them to make the deal less and less lucrative.

With the budget from an Activision Blizzard fallout, they could buy a dozen smaller studios (focus entertainment, remedy, crystal dynamics, CDPR to name a few) and still have billions of dollars to weather this recession without laying off their current workforce.

That's me. I'm a Nintendo fanboy through and through but got a series S when Nintendo announced their OLED model wouldn't have advanced specs.

There was a sale where I could get a Series S and 4 months of game pass for $245, and I'm loving it! The Xbox ecosystem is amazing

@Dr_Luigi Knowing the popular eventual profit/hyper growth model of tech companies and the talk Phil Spencer has had regarding the wider gaming audience of mobile phones, my guess is that GamePass isn't profitable and won't be for several more years