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Xbox 1st party games to launch same day on Game Pass (SoT, CD3, SoD2, subsequent Halo/Forza, etc)
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I don't really play on the X much so I'd not bothered signing up to this but I've been looking at the official page due to this, is there no way to pay for this by the year? I'm only seeing a monthly subscription being available?
As I said, I don't really buy as many games on the Xbox as most do but if there's a couple in a year then it sort of covers it. The only complication with that is usually when I buy Xbox games I buy the "Ultimate Edition" as it's usually the Forza games but obviously this isn't going to cover that. Does anybody know if there would be a way for me to upgrade to the Ultimate version of a game if I'm playing the free version?
As I said, I don't really buy as many games on the Xbox as most do but if there's a couple in a year then it sort of covers it. The only complication with that is usually when I buy Xbox games I buy the "Ultimate Edition" as it's usually the Forza games but obviously this isn't going to cover that. Does anybody know if there would be a way for me to upgrade to the Ultimate version of a game if I'm playing the free version?
Sosokrates
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If they can 10 million gamepass subs
Thats $100 million a month, that aint chump change.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Xbox could launch Xbox 5 with quite the bang.
Assuming they keep this in place, combined with their backwards compatibility plans, you could buy an Xbox 5 day one and have hundreds of old games as well as any launch day new 1st party titles all waiting for you without having to buy any games
Assuming they keep this in place, combined with their backwards compatibility plans, you could buy an Xbox 5 day one and have hundreds of old games as well as any launch day new 1st party titles all waiting for you without having to buy any games
mckmas8808
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Yeah, but how many of those 10 million people would have bought each game for $40-$60 though? I guess this does make the money more consistent though.
sssssszzzzz
Neo Member
This is probably much bigger news than some people are considering. I agree this might be the start of a Netflix-like model for Microsoft. If they really do invest more in first party content, this is a great move. Not sure they should bring Game Pass to PC though, because then it would make less and less sense to still buy an Xbox if you got a decent machine.
With this and backward compatibility, I really do consider getting an Xbox One X once again. I have so many games from the 360 era that could be reactivated through it, plus the indie and digital library. I also got two close friends I could play online multiplayer with (PUBG, Overwatch, For Honor...).
While I am very happy with Sony's PS4 games line-up, Microsoft surely is experimenting a lot and I like this concept much more than Playstation Now. Wondering if 'Games with Gold' will still have some good stuff or not... It's been getting worse on both consoles.
Last thought: How will this impact games sale numbers? Imagine 5 million Game Pass owners and possibly much lower sales on First Party games. It will be difficult to judge which game has been successful and which hasn't.
With this and backward compatibility, I really do consider getting an Xbox One X once again. I have so many games from the 360 era that could be reactivated through it, plus the indie and digital library. I also got two close friends I could play online multiplayer with (PUBG, Overwatch, For Honor...).
While I am very happy with Sony's PS4 games line-up, Microsoft surely is experimenting a lot and I like this concept much more than Playstation Now. Wondering if 'Games with Gold' will still have some good stuff or not... It's been getting worse on both consoles.
Last thought: How will this impact games sale numbers? Imagine 5 million Game Pass owners and possibly much lower sales on First Party games. It will be difficult to judge which game has been successful and which hasn't.
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Thanks, although this sounds like a really good deal for some people, it's probably not going to be right for me to subscribe properly.
I'll still be able to by the complete version of Forza Horizon this year to keep me happy but if there's something like a new Halo, Gears of War, Crackdown, etc being released then the best thing for me is to probably just rent the big games using this service for a month. Looking at it that way, £7.99 is a pretty good price for a month download rental for all their major releases that aren't Forza Horizon.
Most of those titles I've been buying while heavily discounted in sales quite a bit later so this actually seems to work out pretty well for me if I'm only subscribing a couple of times a year or so.
Sosokrates
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Lets break it down
Lets say sea of thieves sold 4 million that like $ 40 to MS per sale
That's $160 million, even if it sold that much lets times that figure by 5 for the other games (im rounding up sales very generously)
Thats a total of $800 million (if all ms Exclusives do very well)
And the Exclusives will still sell some lets say game pass reduces Exclusive game sales by 75% thats $200 millsion plus the $1.2 billion from game pass.
If MS realese multiple 10 million+ selling titles they will need to increase the sub base for game pass which should not be to hard if they have 10million install base calibur Exclusives and best in the industry features.
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mckmas8808
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RiccochetJ
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If Game Pass is a success, I could easily see MS funding expensive single player games that are only available via Game Pass. They could take risks like Netflix and Amazon do. I honestly think they wouldn't have cancelled Scalebound if this were firmly in place. At the same time, I'm not entirely convinced that Scalebound wasn't a Waterworld type disaster during it's production and they mercifully put it out of it's misery.
AgentP
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By all mean, burn more retail and 3rd party bridges.
RiccochetJ
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If they can become Steam for consoles, I doubt they'll be upset. I honestly think that the majority provider for retail and 3rd party sellers here in the next 5 years is going to be Nintendo.
Edit: Hell, they're going beyond Steam. I wouldn't be surprised if Steam or GoG comes out with a subscription model here soon.
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hiphopcr
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This reminds me of 7 years ago when I was asking "what's Spotify?" or 10 years ago when I was asking "what's Netflix streaming?"
gooner4life_uk
Member
EA Access and MS Game Pass are the best thing's to come from this generation and makes me very happy with my purchase of the Xbox One X, your move Sony, at the very least I expect EA Access to launch for PlayStation this year.
01DragonFly
Member
Bold move , I really hope it works for them .
EA Access is great!
VAL0R
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Also, consider all the millions in revenue MS loses to game rentals via Redbox, etc. Game Pass is essentially a rental model with an expanding (rotating?) inventory. I just signed up and there are tons of games I'm already interested in. Redbox is $3.00/day. I think MS is about to drink their milkshake.
hiphopcr
Member
Change is hard but brick and motor is going away for digital media. Sam Goody, Tower Records, and Blockbuster say hello.
Nikana
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I'm not surprised it happened but I'm more surprised how quickly. Like it's literally 4-5 games a year from first party at M$. And that's aiming high.
Seems like a huge thing to pull Xbox completely when they will still offer disc versions.
This doesn't seem to benefit the business at all.
Whats the name of this Australian company?
Iced Arcade
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as a primary xbox console gamer, these are the reasons why I want MS to never be in 1st place. hungry MS is a better MS
First party titles won't cycle out of gamepass.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/01/26/microsoft-studios-games-wont-cycle-out-of-game-pass
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/01/26/microsoft-studios-games-wont-cycle-out-of-game-pass
Green Saber
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First post here so be kind. I think this represents great value for money, I already have game pass for my Xbox One X so to know that I will be able to play State Of Decay 2 on day 1 of release makes the pass worth it.
Codes 208
Member
It certainly has its benefits as a $10 per month sub. When I got my X it came with a month free and it did have a handful of games ive been meaning to play like dead island. But 1st party titles aside most of the games seemed more inline with what Id expect for GwG. Over time Im certain it will prove itself, and paying $10 to play sea of thieves for a month is MUCH cheaper than renting it from redbox for more than three nights
Pingulicious
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Seams like a good deal 7.99 to play them on release might not be much point in getting the game from retail. It's now like Netflix for first party games just have to keep the momentum of release to keep being worth while.
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