![]() ![]() ![]() Given the increasing number of titles on offer, it’s understandable that prices would have to increase eventually. The cost of subscriptions have increased over the past couple of years, while Game Pass has remained steady since it launched in 2017. Speaking to The Verge, Kari Perez, head of communications for Xbox, said that the company has “adjusted the prices to reflect the competitive conditions in each market.”Īs for the rising cost of Game Pass, it’s no big surprise that Microsoft wants you to pay more. Now it seems the company has decided the time is right to raise prices across several regions. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.At the time Microsoft remained committed to freezing the Xbox Series X launch price, but didn’t rule out a future increase. ![]() Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. And we’ll see if Game Pass itself will keep its price the same, or if that’s destined to go up soon as well.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Microsoft is about to launch a bunch of somewhat fixed-length games and they want you to pay more than $1 to beat them. So, that’s my guess as to why this is happening, and why this is happening now. 20 million Spider-Man and God of War sales last generation alone, to start with. That may not get them all the “consumer-friendly” praise that Microsoft gets for Game Pass, but it does get them…millions of dollars. Sony, meanwhile, now gets to sell millions of copies of its game at $70. Microsoft already has to justify Game Pass’ offerings of new first party games for the monthly sub, but I imagine that gets a lot harder with a slate of upcoming releases that could be acquired and beaten within that $1 first month. This is the difference between Microsoft’s Game Pass philosophy and Sony’s “we’re almost never going to do big game launches within subscriptions” model. Starfield, being a mainline Bethesda game, probably has a few hundred hours buried in it, if not thousands, like past Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, but exploration and multiple playthroughs aside, it is fundamentally a single player game you could beat in a month if you were looking to only spend a buck to play it on Xbox or PC. My guess is that Redfall, certainly, could be completed within a month, if not a week of hardcore play. ![]()
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