Game Pass Was Supposed To Be the Netflix-Style All-You-Can-Play Subscription That Would Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company
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Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/[email protected]/p/869515/game-pass-was-supposed-to-save-xbox-instead-its-killing-the-company

“Netflix for games” has proven to be far from the ideal solution.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    21 hours ago

    GamePass is killing Microsoft? I don’t think so. And Xbox is not a company. The company that own Xbox is Microsoft.

    • jsnfwlr@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      10 hours ago

      Xbox has its own CEO, it is its own company, wholly owned by Microsoft. Xbox then also owns other companies like Mojang, Zenimax Media, Activision Blizzard … They own companies too… Its companies all the way down. This way if one fails, it’s bankruptcy doesn’t take down the whole chain.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        it is its own company,

        No that was exactly the point, Xbox is NOT its own company, it is a division within Microsoft. Something you could have easily looked up before posting false information.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(division)

        formerly Microsoft Gaming, is the video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft,