It’s funny how people flip flop between game pass causing bad sales, and game pass being a gigantic flop that no one pays for, depending on the point they want to prove.

I mean, both can be true. Microsoft would be counting on certain first party titles being pillars of Game Pass to pull in new subscribers and retain current ones. If they see relatively few Game Pass subscribers engaging with the title and subscriptions continue to drop, then it wasn’t the draw they anticipated.

And sure, Game Pass cannibalizes individual game sales, so I’m hoping they weren’t being held to that specific metric as punishment for Microsoft’s own failure in that regard. But we can also assume that not all engagement with GamePass would have translated directly into sales either, so low sales plus low Game Pass use would still indicate a flop.