It's for the gamers man!

More proof Square is the best publisher. Everything gets a demo

While probably true isn't this revenue lol

tweaktown.com/news/91847/game-pass-and-xbox-are-profitable-phil-spencer-reiterates/index.html

"Game Pass is profitable, Xbox is profitable. I've said it's sustainable, but people ask me what I mean by that," Spencer said.

"For this...I'm going to take it back to console, the olden days, when we just did games on console. Every time we shipped a console, we pretended that Sony and Nintendo didn't exist. So any time you looked at a game, you said 'hey, you're not shipping this game on the full console base, you're excluding...let's just call it 2/3rds of the market.'

"Let's just say we're going to ship Halo 2 and we're not shipping it on Nintendo or Sony. Nobody every asked me 'hey, how does the P&L for this game work when you're not selling it everywhere you can sell it."

"But now with Game Pass...people kind of get stuck. They say 'well wait a minute, you're not selling every copy you can sell, how can you afford to go do these games?

"The math is actually very similar for us. What you did on old-school console is you said, 'okay, how many consoles are you going to sell because Halo 2 launches, how long will those players stay on the platform and how many games will they buy, and is that more cost-effective to keep the game exclusive to your platform?'

"And let's be clear, we could have sold Halo 2 on PlayStation and we probably would have sold a couple copies. We probably could have done the same thing on Nintendo's platform.

"So when I look at Game Pass, we absolutely are going to make money on Starfield--touch wood, that's the plan--and we will go grow Game Pass and Xbox will be a better platform both on PC and console where people play.

"For us it's about expanding our platform reach and we think important games like Starfield will be catalysts for Game Pass growth on a lot of different platforms.

"But anytime you're growing a platform, there's always this trade off with games. We're not a third-party publisher, right, we do something different with our content like Starfield, but not all the content. Obviously Minecraft ships on other platforms."

Read more: tweaktown.com/news/91847/game-pass-and-xbox-are-profitable-phil-spencer-reiterates/index.html

I don't understand the relevance of the graphs is what im saying lol

i thought if i copy pasted a random graph people would assume it means something

Well they def won't make it to 2028 then

tbh i think microsoft was just saying that s*** to lawyers to get sympathy points so they pass the activision deal

they are NOT leaving the business by 2027

Yea who knows how many more major publishers they'll have bought by then

No more MAJOR publishers is my assumption

do you see how much of a hell it is to get this activision deal through

this s*** still aint passed

Plenty of major publishers that are smaller than literally the biggest third party one (Activision)

Microsoft MO for like 25 years has been buying everything to extinguish their competitors. They ain't changing tune lol. They will try another publisher right after this Activision s***, especially since the precedent will be set (they will still be a distant third after Activision, so they can use the same reasoning that will get Activision to pass)

Understatement, more like last 10 yrs

i mean they wont buy an EA, ubisoft, take two

biggest i see in the pipline with potential to be bought is gearbox if the saudis wanna get rid of it

SEGA and BAMCO are both major publishers that are possible. Hell, even Square

Square would be funny af tbh just cause all the Sony deals they took

It would be even weirder if you look into their history. Sony basically saved Square back in the early 2000s when they were in danger of going out of business. Square played a big part in stabilizing PlayStation in the PS3 era when they were similarly in danger by selling them back their stock.

"Back in 2001, Square Enix had financial problems and Sony bought our stocks. Now, the situation is reversed. Since then, we have had good support from our customers for our products, so Square Enix is back on its legs," he explained.

"But Sony has declined. The presidents of both companies had negotiation and resulted as everyone knew. We did not have argument. Since Sony once helped us, it was time we helped Sony back."

It's legit a bromance dating back to FF7 where Sony cut Square a $40mil marketing budget for 7.

Would be as funny as like if Microsoft bought rare

Wait a second

Kinda but diff context. Nintendo ain't give a f*** about Rare lol

M$ like the rich kid in highschool that can cop all the clothes and shoes and s*** but still manage to rock it in the best swaggerless way possible

Who is that guy?

This leaked via the new documents
Xbox is more profitable than PlayStation

@Jamian_Minato thoughts?

Doom: Year Zero
Oblivion remaster
Fallout 3 remaster
Dishonoured 3

yes yes yes

wait so they wont be selling the Series X with a disc tray anymore? they plan to ONLY sell the 2TB digital? are u sure?