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Xbox CEO: Game Pass is not very loss-making to raise prices later – Gaming – News

Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, says his company is not irresponsibly driving huge amounts of money to increase the number of users of the Xbox Game Pass, and subsequently raising the price of the service at a later date .

Partly because Microsoft has not provided exact data on Xbox Game Pass so far, the Stevior website asked the question whether the service is viable. In response, Spencer indicates that the Game Pass is doing well. According to him, the business of the service on an annual basis more than doubled in size and is on ‘a good trajectory’, even though this time he does not give exact numbers about, for example, the number of subscribers.

Spencer denies the claim that Microsoft would make substantial losses by investing heavily in the game service to suddenly raise prices. “There is not such a model for us. We feel good in the things we are doing now. We are obviously investing in it, but we are not investing money in a way that is untenable.” In addition, he states that the offers or deals are quite normal as promotional activities, as many more services do.

The Xbox Game Pass gives users access for 10 euros per month to a catalog of roughly 235 games, including Microsoft titles, but also a number of large games from other publishers. Since the summer of last year, part of the catalog is like beta also accessible for PC players. In fact, subscribers can play all the games in the catalog for a year for roughly the cost of two new titles, which often raised the question of how sustainable that model actually is for Microsoft.

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