Bumblebeetuna
Gold Member
Unlike Netflix and the others, Xbox games are also sold at retail and on storefronts, providing an alternative way for more revenue.
The cost to produce new first party content is exponentially lower for Microsoft than the tens of billions streaming services spend on content acquisition, production and retention.
Yes, Netflix and other video streaming services have always been such a gargantuan failure of a comparison in terms of finances. Not only does MS put their games out at retail, but they also put them on other platforms and even other digital stores than their own. Netflix and a majority of the other platforms, don't.
Remember, if you listened to console worriers, lots of whom are in the thread already, games like Starfield shouldn't even exist. It's a AAA, single player RPG with seemingly no GaaS elements. GamePass was only supposed to give us A/AA MP GaaS tripe, rushed out to flood the service with a "quantity over quality" selection of games. And even now that we are getting this gem, they're still complaining, because omg MS totes took away the $1 promo option! Like they have in the past and will again in the future. You'll never win against the console worriers and their crystal balls.