Things are progressing calmly for Microsoft: if the takeover of Activision-Blizzard suffers some setbacks, so that the various states decide on the potential anti-competitive nature of this movement to several tens of billionsbusiness seems to be going well with the Xbox Game Pass, since the latter generated billions last year according to data recovered by TweakTown.
Nearly $3 billion in 2021
It is the Brazilian institute responsible for studying the case of the takeover of Activision-Blizzard that balances the info: Xbox Game Pass Reportedly Made $2.9 Billion Last Year. Ah, that’s for sure, it’s a big deal, but we mustn’t forget that Xbox invests massively in the purchase of temporary exclusives in its service and offers all the brand’s exclusives in day one on the service. subscription. It’s a business that will only be profitable in the medium to long term, for the moment it’s mainly a question of image with the players. : in the great circus of online subscription services, the Game Pass has quite simply become a benchmark.
Unstoppable service?
On the online service side, Microsoft’s Xbox division has always been above its main competitor in the console field.. From the first generation of Xbox, the famous Xbox Live service offered online consoles of unprecedented quality. Also on 360, the console’s online store has revolutionized a lot of things, with downloadable demos and an unprecedented promotion for independent games that will greatly contribute to this kind of production being taken seriously. Today, the Xbox Game Pass is almost essential if you are a rather eclectic gamer : the batches of games are regular and sometimes allow to play big expectations of the year from the first day. There like that, we immediately think of A Plague Tale Requiem, available on October 18 for all subscribers, on PC and consoles.
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