… Microsoft's director of gaming and platform communications, Dustin Blackwell, stated the increases were intended to strengthen offerings by "adding more value to these plans." "It's something we don't take lightly, and we're listening to the feedback of players and the community to try and provide … …
… Earlier this week, Xbox reduced the price of its top-tier Game Pass subscription and removed Call of Duty from its day-one launch lineup in response to customer feedback. …
… But Schade highlights other important avenues, such as Xbox Game Pass and early access. He says Xbox Game Pass supported Everspace 2's "production runway," enabling more content and polish across platforms. …
… Overall gaming revenue fell 7%, while Xbox content and services declined 5% year over year, compared to a prior year boosted by first-party content. Xbox hardware revenue dropped 33% after price increases for Series X and S consoles in the US last year. …
… Commercially, it's working for the software – Microsoft is now a huge publisher on the PlayStation platform – but all the advantages of exclusivity have been stripped from the ailing Xbox platform. …
… "Digital only distribution gives a slight assist to Xbox, which has broadly disappeared in retail channels outside of the US and UK," he says. "Xbox is an invisible platform that has been largely abandoned by physical retailers in international markets. …
… "Within Xbox, there are some really interesting learnings from Mojang in particular" "But in this case, it was the forum where we actually discovered, because you get instant feedback. …
… "So for those teams, they would come to us with a game that they want to go through our testing and community building platform, and we would run it very much the same way that we do for our internal games." Avalanche won't provide funding for external developers, but it will provide them with feed… …
… "During playtests for Subnautica 2, we received valuable feedback from our community that reinforced our confidence in the game's direction. At the same time, the feedback highlighted a few areas that could benefit from further refinement before release," the spokesperson told Eurogamer. …