I'm also wondering about gamepass. With this hybrid device do Xbox players now get to pay Xbox PC game pass prices? Seems like MS will lose a ton of money there.
Yeah. If they fully pull out of traditional consoles, and move onto the PC-in-a-console-shell strategy, then Ultimate won’t be needed for anyone to get day 1 games or the console+PC combo.
Ultimate will only be needed for cloud streaming. Not the best selling point…
So at that point, expect 1) a price increase for PC Gamepass, or 2) a complete removal of that PC tier, or 3) day 1 to be taken away from PC Gamepass to just be on Ultimate.
However, they’ll get extra money from PlayStation and Switch/Switch 2 gamers now, so if Microsoft’s games get successful there I guess it’s possible that it could pay for parts of these strategy changes.
But they’re doing big cuts here. I don’t understand how they plan to pay for it all. Look at any earnings report, content and services is where they make most money. And that’s where the losses will be seen if Steam is on the dashboard and no online paywall exist.