You just echoed what many of my friends say who are on Gamepass
It's the weird article's fault for the first thing. It should come with a giant disclaimer that all of the "data" is based on a million people who apparently (if I understand correctly) let the website track their achievements. Without making that info nugget loud and clear, it's easy to wonder how they claim that the most popular game of 2023 is something other than Hogwarts.
Why? I heard from the wise man that game pass increasing sales?
I'm playing it for $1 lol. What's funny is I would've bought the game but
Yes you heard the wise man correctly.
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1997.
How so?
Yes you heard the wise man correctly.
Phil Spencer: Game Pass leads to more game sales
This past weekend's X018 event was, arguably, a two-hour long advertisement for Game Pass, and given what Microsoft gam…
Because the sample is from a specific demographic those who play and purchase games around achievements. It be like using those cheap playstation games that existed for earning an easy platinum as purchasing habits of the average gamer.
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I bought both on PS5 and Atomic Heart is clearly the better and more original game
I follow you, thank you, didn't look at it that way
I assume it is, Everyone is talking about Hogwarts in a Gamepass thread about some other game.
If it is not on Game Pass, then let's get it on there! And on PS+!I assume it is, Everyone is talking about Hogwarts in a Gamepass thread about some other game.
So they are really going with this number of active players rather than sales measure of success. I guess it makes sense in this context. If all these players picked it up on Gamepass and then it sold decent on PS5 and PC then yea, I'd call it a success too.
Atomic Heart launched into Xbox Game Pass last week, and according to first week player data, it's 2023's most popular new Xbox release to date, surpassing the likes of Hogwarts Legacy and fellow Game Pass heavy hitters such as GoldenEye 007 and Hi-Fi Rush.
Here on TrueAchievements, which now has a healthy sample pool of over one million registered and tracked players, the first week numbers show Atomic Heart sitting pretty with almost 120,000 people having stepped into the boots of P-3 to go take on some out-of-control robots. That's around 20k more than Hogwarts Legacy picked up in its first full week (and that even had the benefit of a few extra days of early access players prior to its official launch date), and well ahead of GoldenEye and Hi-Fi Rush, both of which had around 70,000 tracked players in their first week.
Late last year, High on Life quickly became the most successful third-party Game Pass launch ever, and while Atomic Heart isn't exactly close to the 160k week-one TA players that Squanch Games' comedy shooter picked up, it's still well ahead of every other big Game Pass drop of 2022. Last year's top Game Pass launches (aside from High on Life) came in tens of thousands lower than Atomic Heart in their first week, meaning Mundfish's newcomer has trounced the likes of PowerWash Simulator, Deathloop, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Tunic, Scorn, and the rest. Not bad for the studio's first game, huh?
Atomic Heart is 2023's most popular Xbox launch so far, first week data suggests
Soviet sci-fi shooter Atomic Heart looks to be off to a great start, with first week player data pointing to Mundfish's debut release being the most popular new Xbox game of 2023 so far.www.trueachievements.com
The low sales of Xbox may even be working in some kind of advantage for MS. They don't have to pay a really big amount of money for a game to launch on GP because there were not many potential sales on xbox to begin with. That's some kind of downward spiral for devs. Even when Xbox and GP would sell like hotcakes. Ms could still have the argument that games won't sell on Xbox because everybody holds out on buying games because they all launch on GP. So launch on GP and get some kind of income or no sales.Atomic Heart splits in the UK (boxed sales)
PS5 87% , Xbox: 13%
UK Sales: Week 8, 2023 (Feb 19 - Feb 25)
Physical charts Week 8 First tidbits / additional infos Full reports https://www.gamesindustry.biz/four-new-releases-fail-to-top-hogwarts-legacy-uk-boxed-charts Warner Bros' wizarding RPG managed a third consecutive week at No.1 of GfK's UK boxed charts, despite seeing sales drop by 51%...www.installbaseforum.com
Do you have any proof of your claims? Elden Ring is pretty old now. Can you show how Game pass prevented it from selling on Xbox or any other title that is NOT on the service. When I last checked Elden Ring was one of the top selling titles on Xbox.
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Almost every Xbox story now turns into a feeding frenzy of negativity even when it's completely unfounded. I'd expect more predictions of MS leaving video games soon.
Do you have any proof of your claims? Elden Ring is pretty old now. Can you show how Game pass prevented it from selling on Xbox or any other title that is NOT on the service. When I last checked Elden Ring was one of the top selling titles on Xbox.
How many copies has Elden Ring sold? — 2024 statistics | LEVVVEL
Engage with Elden Ring statistics, detailing player journeys, boss challenge ratings, and the mystery of the shattered ring.
This is despite Game pass' existence.
- 30% of the total Elden Rings sales were for the Xbox.
Game pass will obviously reduce the number of retail sales for games that are in the service because you give customers an alternative way to access the games. There is no evidence that gamers will refuse to buy a game when they have no such alternative especially big name games like Elden Ring. Regardless MS still makes money whether you buy a game at retail or subscribe to Game pass.
Almost every Xbox story now turns into a feeding frenzy of negativity even when it's completely unfounded. I'd expect more predictions of MS leaving video games soon.
Thread was going so well, why did you have to come to ask for proofs and show actual data for Elden Ring? ....Do you have any proof of your claims? Elden Ring is pretty old now. Can you show how Game pass prevented it from selling on Xbox or any other title that is NOT on the service. When I last checked Elden Ring was one of the top selling titles on Xbox.
How many copies has Elden Ring sold? — 2024 statistics | LEVVVEL
Engage with Elden Ring statistics, detailing player journeys, boss challenge ratings, and the mystery of the shattered ring.
This is despite Game pass' existence.
- 30% of the total Elden Rings sales were for the Xbox.
Game pass will obviously reduce the number of retail sales for games that are in the service because you give customers an alternative way to access the games. There is no evidence that gamers will refuse to buy a game when they have no such alternative especially big name games like Elden Ring. Regardless MS still makes money whether you buy a game at retail or subscribe to Game pass.
Almost every Xbox story now turns into a feeding frenzy of negativity even when it's completely unfounded. I'd expect more predictions of MS leaving video games soon.
no its not. your argument is full of personal assumptions.
Prove it.
Atomic Heart splits in the UK (boxed sales)
PS5 87% , Xbox: 13%
UK Sales: Week 8, 2023 (Feb 19 - Feb 25)
Physical charts Week 8 First tidbits / additional infos Full reports https://www.gamesindustry.biz/four-new-releases-fail-to-top-hogwarts-legacy-uk-boxed-charts Warner Bros' wizarding RPG managed a third consecutive week at No.1 of GfK's UK boxed charts, despite seeing sales drop by 51%...
i can't complain about the performance because I am poor
