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Xbox Game Pass made $230 million revenue in one month, most users pay for full subscriptions
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You can still buy 100% of the games on gamepass. I don’t see Microsoft stopping individual sales as I’d expect that action to draw the attention of regulators
Pretty sure you get a discount on them for being a game pass subscriber too. At least in some of them
Those discounts are nothing as compared to buying used.
I so hope that the next consoles will have disc drives..
Considering Microsoft is supposedly releasing a new revision of the Xbox Series X and S next year without disc drives, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Given the direction the industry is moving, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PS6 and whatever Microsoft calls the next Xbox are all digital only.
I'm a little fuzzy as to why the first-sale doctrine exists for physical goods but not for digital goods. It seems to me that any reasonable economic rationale should affect either both or neither.
The Series S and Game Pass have shown that people like discounts; so either competing console is going to run into issues attracting customers if they never offer them in any form. That’s currently an issue for the Nintendo eShop.
Microsoft has shown that nothing will turn the attention of toothless regulators worldwide. They can do anything they want.