Xbox Game Pass Tops 25 Million Subscribers - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 January 2022 / 2,218 Views
Microsoft today announced it is acquiring Activision Blizzard in a deal worth $68.7 billion. IPs that will be owned by Microsoft once the deal closes include Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, StarCraft, and more.
In the Xbox Wire post announcing the acquisition it was revealed Xbox Game Pass has surpassed 25 million subscribers.
"Upon close, we will offer as many Activision Blizzard games as we can within Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass, both new titles and games from Activision Blizzard’s incredible catalog," said the head of Xbox Phil Spencer.
"We also announced today that Game Pass now has more than 25 million subscribers. As always, we look forward to continuing to add more value and more great games to Game Pass."
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Well hopefully this silences those that were saying it lost subscribers. Once call of duty hits the service gamepass is probably going to explode
Those people will continue to troll and imply many, if not most subscribers, are either ones who subscribed at a ridiculously low deal and will unsubscribe after, or are ones that subscribe for a month and peace out at the end of it. These people just assume there aren't millions, maybe tens of millions, who will bother to unsubscribe each month as it fits their financial needs, as if that is how this works in the industry as whole.
I wish they would tell us what the actual number is. While I'm sure it's not too far over 25 million (if it was 28.7 million, they'd say "nearly 30 million"), it would be nice to know for talking about 25.1 million or 26.5 million.
i use the upgrade trick & it still works as of DEC 2021.. got 18 months of gold £55 (cdkeys) then added 1 month of ultimate £8 it converted it all to ultimate.. but have to let all subs run out completely for it to work
It's positive, I guess.
Will take a lot of years to make 70 billion back with only 25 million subscribers
Ya know, I am starting to think MS isn't just trying to make money. I suppose they are attempting to become the biggest video game company one purchase at a time. They can afford to do it.
Fair enough, but even in becoming the biggest you should have some long therm view. Perhaps MS is also going to make standard game PC's.
Considering that this is before Activision, and in no way reflects what CoD and other games being day 1 will bring to the sub count...as well as added revenue from activision's mobile games...you can do better than this lol. They will make it back sooner than some would like to think. MS did not become rich enough to make such acquisitions by not knowing how to play a calculated long game.
I think they've bitten off more than they can chew. But it certainly is exciting times ahead. Can't wait to see how the next 2 years unfold
Bitten off more than they can chew? I'd argue that there is nobody on Earth more qualified than Microsoft to do this. Who could it possibly be?
MS is a gigantic (mostly) software company that's been in the gaming business for over 20 years. They've been using the subscription model for many products for years. They have a massive war chest of cash such that they can invest whatever is necessary and take losses for however long they need to make it work.
I'm thinking they will take out loses for too long, and the franchises won't be worth as near as what they paid for by the time they start making money.
CoD is only a small part of the larger picture. The micro transactions alone from Candy Crush Warzone, and CoD mobile could easily pay for itself faster than people realize, let alone the long term draw that gamepass will get with not just CoD, but every other dormant IP they could revive. Hell with all these new dev teams, it could even lead to new IPs, and bolstering the gamepass library is only a good thing with more in house games and variety.
