… The opposite happened; Call of Duty was disrupted by Xbox Game Pass , Xbox Game Pass was disrupted by Call of Duty , and hardware continued its free-fall decline. …
… In a complete reversal of the strategy used to justify the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft announced that future Call of Duty titles will no longer be available on Game Pass on their launch day. …
… Xbox Game Pass only has around 30 million subscribers. Free-to-play games, mobile games, and other forms of entertainment have decreased spending on packaged game sales for every platform, far beyond Xbox's green walls. …
… Whether it's Nitro included in Game Pass or some sort of cloud-based partnership like streaming your games directly in Discord, it's clear that Discord isn't going anywhere anytime soon. …
… Starting off, Sharma reaffirmed that Game Pass was losing subscribers: “W e had raised the prices 50% last year, and we were on the path to seeing a decay in subscribers, and so it had just simply become too unaffordable, and so we adjusted the price for players. ” This is something Xbox Chief Stra… …
… 4 Xbox Game Pass' Subnautica 2 blew up the Steam charts in minutes at its Early Access launch 5 Microsoft's Xbox CEO Asha Sharma polls nearly 20,000 gamers on the brand's title
In a recent interview, The Game Business's Chris Dring sat down with Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball , and to say he didn't pull any punches would be an understatement. …
… Reportedly, the gaming brand's new CEO Asha Sharma has stated Game Pass is "too expensive" in a new internal memo, and noted the "current model isn’t the final one." Notably, it also comes just a few weeks after a separate report alleged Sharma was considering adding "lower-priced tiers" to Xbox Ga… …
… He rebuilt goodwill among gamers, championed cross-play, and engaged with the community from day one as CEO. Throughout his tenure we saw Xbox grow, games become more accessible through Xbox Game Pass , and classics receive the love they deserve. …
… Pretty much the last thing I want when I sit down to chill out and have fun with a game is to be marketed at like I constantly am for the rest of the day, so you can imagine how annoyed of a reaction I had to the news that Xbox's chief strategy officer Matthew Ball is considering the implementation… …
