Topher
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18 million gamepass subs as of January. Conservatively at $5/month average, that is about $90M/month, which equates to about $1.1B/year. If Gamepass were to hit 25 million subs next year, they'd conservatively be taking in about 1.5B/year. Then you add in the individual game sales, and it's really not a stretch to think they could fully recoup this investment in under 5 years at these subscriber numbers.
Whats far more likely is that these sub numbers explode with exclusivity, and they have a recoupmeny path in less than 3 years.
But that money is going to be distributed right back out to the game publishers. Microsoft isn't making very much money on Game Pass according to Aaron Greenberg.
People do realize that all those game devs and publishers on game pass expect to get paid. Right?
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