Microsoft’s Game Pass is “unanimously” disliked by publishers, according to the head of PlayStation.
Ryan claimed that the “Game Pass business model appears to have some challenges, and Microsoft appears to be losing a lot of money on it”, adding that the service that offers free games across Xbox and PC is widely disliked by publishers.
That directly clashes with Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s assurance toAxioslast year that Game Pass is “very, very sustainable”, along with his insistence that the service wasn’t “burning cash”.
“I talked to all the publishers, and they unanimously do not like Game Pass because it’s value-destructive,” Ryan said, in what feels very much like the corporate equivalent of telling someone at school that somebody else has no friends.
In response, Xbox apparently just highlighted that every Game Pass announcement from therecent Xbox Games Showcasewas from a creator that had previously launched a game via Game Pass.
Ryan’s comments come amidsta slew of fascinating insightsto emerge from Microsoft’s battle with the FTC over its ridiculous-dollar proposal to buy Activision, ranging from other studios that the Xbox maker had considered buying to its own unflinching analysis of competitors’ products.
