Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 weeks agoStep 1: get lots of subscribers Step 2: enshitify
It took them 8 years of trying to get to step 1.
Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 weeks agoStep 1: get lots of subscribers Step 2: enshitify
It took them 8 years of trying to get to step 1.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
They hit 10 million subs 5 years ago. Not sure what your definition of “lots” is…
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
10m is not even a speck of the gaming landscape
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
40% of Xbox gamers are from the US. The US has 132 million households. That means that roughly 1 in 10 US households currently has a Gamepass sub. Hope that puts it into perspective.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You’re assuming that those 40% of Xbox gamers are also 40% of Xbox game pass subscribers
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
During the pandemic? Wasn’t PS plus at around 40m at that time? Xbox live at 90m? Netflix at 180m?
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
PS Plus is closer to Xbox Live than Xbox Gamepass. Xbox Live had 40-50 million subs at the time in 2020.
Presently Xbox Live has 120 million users vs 33 million PS Plus Essentials subscribers. Gamepass has 34 million subs vs 14 million higher-tier PS Plus subs. Even if we drop Nintendo into the mix, Gamepass has an equal number of subs to Nintendo Online members. Seems like they’re doing just fine.
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t personally know anyone on game pass, and only one with Nintendo online, so that seems accurate. But it doesn’t matter. Releasing AAA games day one on a subscription model isn’t sustainable for Microsoft or the studios participating. Those prices will go up and the service will enshitify.