Last year they reported 25 million subscribers. Even if every single one of those was the $10 plan, that equates to $3 Billion. Seems like they are doing okay.
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simple@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Spencer revealed the figure during an interview with Windows Central and stated that Xbox Game Pass is “financially viable, meaning it makes money,” despite that outlay.
That’s interesting because they missed their milestone for 2021 and 2022 then stopped reporting their numbers for 2023. I kind of doubt they’re making a real profit from Game Pass, else they’d be boasting about it more.
Centillionaire@kbin.social 8 months ago
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
25 million x 10 = 250 million 250 million - 1 billion = −750 million
smeg@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I think $10 is per month, so multiply that by 12 to get the $3B
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I knew I got something wrong lol
phillaholic@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Depends on how many used deals to upgrade Gold or whatever.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a difference between “profitable” and “how much money Microsoft wants to make after investing billions in something”
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I get what you’re saying and I’m sure all the MBAs at Microsoft are shitting bricks, but I never fully understand why a company would be disappointed with a service like this one even doing only slightly better than breaking even.
Not everything needs to have infinite growth and gigantic margins as long as $-in > $-out.
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Opportunity cost. The money they are spending on Gamepass could be spent on something else with a better return.