Microsoft Internal Roadmap Points to Breakout Year for 1st Party and Game Pass

[Rekkapryde]

That $300 mill isn’t allocated to one game. It’s for all games placed on GP including the cuts that non-MS games get for placing their games on GP, development of other big budget games, advertisement, etc…

Plus they are spending $80+ billion on Zenni and ActiBlizz. Hell even at a sustained $300 mill/month from GP that over 22 years to break even.

In many ways I hope they get ActiBlizz, and pull immediately from PS just so that their “profitability” hits even harder.

Bingo.

Their counting on those sub numbers to hit a crazy number, but nothing is stopping your competitors either. Sony already has, but just not with day 1 AAA games due to the price of development. Nothing stopping Nintendo either, but it's the same principle. You make way more selling traditionally. Putting on streaming AFTER sales drop off makes more sense on these big budget games.

And cutting off Playstation in a few years, if CoD is still even popular which is another argument, is dumb as Playstation literally makes up 50% of CoD's revenue.

That cost to recoup is nuts.

Took Disney 6 years to recoup the 4 billion they paid for Star Wars. The fact they have the licensing rights for merchandise, toys, games, clothing, etc is what made the recoup time pretty quick.

Hope MS wasn't sold on overaggressive projections because I don't see it either.

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Hopes and dreams. More than half of these games don't have any gameplay footage.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Bingo.

Their counting on those sub numbers to hit a crazy number, but nothing is stopping your competitors either. Sony already has, but just not with day 1 AAA games due to the price of development. Nothing stopping Nintendo either, but it's the same principle. You make way more selling traditionally. Putting on streaming AFTER sales drop off makes more sense on these big budget games.

And cutting off Playstation in a few years, if CoD is still even popular which is another argument, is dumb as Playstation literally makes up 50% of CoD's revenue.

That cost to recoup is nuts.

Took Disney 6 years to recoup the 4 billion they paid for Star Wars. The fact they have the licensing rights for merchandise, toys, games, clothing, etc is what made the recoup time pretty quick.

Hope MS wasn't sold on overaggressive projections because I don't see it either.

In this y’all pretend gamepass is the only way to make money. COD warzone the FTP game makes over 5 million dollars A DAY.

Y’all did this same thing with minecraft. It was such a bad idea Microsoft would never recoup that money but here we are.

If there’s anything microsoft knows how to do it’s make money, they will be fine, you don’t have to worry about them

 

[The Mad Titan]

Xbox is a division of MS. If this shyt ends up being a net negative changes in strategy/leadership WILL be made. Phill and them nikkas aren’t more powerful than the board and major shareholders. MS isn’t Xbox’s fukking charity basket.

 

[Diondon]

Oh Lord, talk about the games but don't actually talk about the games, Botbrehs

 

[Rekkapryde]

In this y’all pretend gamepass is the only way to make money. COD warzone the FTP game makes over 5 million dollars A DAY.

Y’all did this same thing with minecraft. It was such a bad idea Microsoft would never recoup that money but here we are.

If there’s anything microsoft knows how to do it’s make money, they will be fine, you don’t have to worry about them

They've lost money too on tons of products as well.

Just hope they didn't overproject. That's all.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Microsoft is a household name now and not because of computers.


If Xbox wasn't around MS would still be just a big "faceless" company to most and something the use for emails at work.

Those are the type of things you continue to put money into, especially when there is so much potential upside.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

They've lost money too on tons of products as well.

Just hope they didn't overproject. That's all.

Stop lying nikka all y’all hope it fails.

Sounding like day day.

“Nope he ain’t gone get….he ain’t gone get it….i hope he don’t get it….

Sony stan’s

 

[Rekkapryde]

Stop lying nikka all y’all hope it fails.

Sounding like day day.

“Nope he ain’t gone get….he ain’t gone get it….i hope he don’t get it….

Sony stan’s

We all we got tho

 

[Legal]

Microsoft is a household name now and not because of computers.


If Xbox wasn't around MS would still be just a big "faceless" company to most and something the use for emails at work.

Those are the type of things you continue to put money into, especially when there is so much potential upside.

Sure. Because Microsoft didn't have cultural cache from their marketing campaigns back when individual Windows releases were a thing.

Definitely don't see Surface commercials constantly during NFL broadcasts, either.

Either way, I just need them to not fumble these releases. I like my Series X, but the wait for the big games I was hoping for has been painful at times.

 

[ColdSlither]

Microsoft is a household name now and not because of computers.


If Xbox wasn't around MS would still be just a big "faceless" company to most and something the use for emails at work.

Those are the type of things you continue to put money into, especially when there is so much potential upside.

Come on. Even you know that is not true.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Come on. Even you know that is not true.

Years back they did an interview talking about how xbox’s main goal isn’t really to make a huge profit.

It’s used to incubate relationships with customers, developers, tech companies, etc.

Right now “The Cloud” is their biggest money maker and literally the future of their company and tech in general, and it started out as Xbox Live.

 

[Insensitive]

Microsoft as a corporation literally prints money.
I'm pretty sure their accountants looked at the revenue of the corporation as a whole prior to approving the
budget for their acquisitions, the gamepass model and the decision to do "Day 1" additions of high budget games.

They likely will have a break even point and with games like COD potentially becoming exclusive in the future, I'm
certain the worries about "bu buuu buuutt COD sells a lot on playstation !!" will crater, COD is a game that people WILL pick
up a console just to play.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Come on. Even you know that is not true.

Its very much true, we are literally going back and forth talking about xbox sony and microsoft because of Xbox. MS is a common household name because of xbox and the more things that game pass are on it becomes even more common. In fact if you ask people what's the 1st thing they think about when you say MS they'll probably say computers and xbox.

 

[Rekkapryde]

MS is a common household name because of xbox

yall nikkaz got jokes