The more I see things like this, the more I appreciate the genius of Gabe who kept Valve private and safe from these shenanigans.
@kaznika65845 ай бұрын
From The Duran to Asmongold, you are everywhere!
@ceshmate19535 ай бұрын
@@nonyabusiness-f9e rocksmith requested it, no ? and helldivers has nothing to do with valve. So what are you even saying ?
@MountainsAreCool5 ай бұрын
@@nonyabusiness-f9e wdym valve gave free refunds, which made sony backtrack.
@sirnonsense50335 ай бұрын
@@nonyabusiness-f9ehelldivers is Sonys cake tho not valves. They just sold it on steam.
@TaIIer5 ай бұрын
I swear I’ve seen this Gabe comment 100 times under 3 different Asmon videos
@mkultraenjoyer5 ай бұрын
I'm sick of subscriptions and I'm sick of micro transactions
@MrRafagigapr5 ай бұрын
if gamepass made games come with all dlc it would be good , but buying dlc for a game you cannot play withouth a subscription is insane
@adamboyd83165 ай бұрын
Cosmetic micro transactions are not an issue if the game is free.
@juanrolandodelarosa15505 ай бұрын
@@MrRafagigapr thats a you problem, if game pass included dlc the price for the subscription would skyrocket to make up for the money microsoft would have to spend to get games on game pass, if you see a game you like on game pass and you want to buy the dlc you buy the full game with the game pass discount and then buy the dlc.
@Darko8075 ай бұрын
'sup sicko brrt brrt lezgo wicked yup
@Darko8075 ай бұрын
@@adamboyd8316the issue is thinking exactly that 😢
@omarct5 ай бұрын
Game pass is good for kids without steam and tons of free time. I barely have time to play the 2 or 3 good games that come out. Why would i need 10000 old games for free. Plus I have a massive backlog of games I need to play and probably will never get to.
@foreignuser_5 ай бұрын
gamepass is a DEI injection tool targeting children & adult versions of children
@shredandspin5 ай бұрын
Disagree IMO. Plenty of good games come out on gamepass. Another crabs treasure, Lies of P, Palworld, Manor Lords, Forza Motorsport, Vampire survivors, Forza, Jedi Survivor, Rainbow 6 Seige. If you bought a small portion of those your well over the yearly gamepass fee. Plenty of productive adults can play 4 or 5 games a year.
@justhomas835 ай бұрын
Twenty dollars a month isn't hurting anyone for Game pass 🎮🎮🎮🎮 Plenty of people are paying for it. It's Netflix for gaming basically
@nathanhargenrader6455 ай бұрын
because if you play more than two games on it a year you are saving money. I think that is pretty good and most, not all gamers would probably play more than that
@3rd-Sinner5 ай бұрын
Good for someone that just want to try the game, or a third worlder like me who cant buy expensive game (Persona 3 Reload for me)
@Pepe-dq2ib5 ай бұрын
Asmon : M$ is not stupid, they know what they are doing. Asmon 3mins later: M$ doesnt know what they are doing shutting down tangle studio.
@marcogenovesi85705 ай бұрын
classic Asmon
@Shadowclaw255 ай бұрын
it must be hard when u realize Asmond is smarter than you XD Microsoft knows what theyre doing in the Big-game where it goes about Billions. But yeah they have no clue in the small decisions, they really dont care at all about that little loss. Now i need to put an example cause u mostly still dont get it: Small-game: Great games and very small money with tango Big-game: Buy ALL studios and close them so only u exist anymore They just didnt check the small stuff, it just goes down with the big tidal wave decisions.
@Pepe-dq2ib5 ай бұрын
@@Shadowclaw25 what you said about MS contradicts when Asmon saids, but you also said he's smarter.
@urekmazino68005 ай бұрын
He's talking out of his ass. Most of these developing countries will never utilize cloud gaming or it'll be a really long time. Shit us in the usa hardly use cloud gaming that often.
@Pepe-dq2ib5 ай бұрын
@@urekmazino6800 you telling me the Tajikistan and Gambia wont have gigabit fiber optics in a year or two? Or most of PSN blacklisted countries either?
@AnikethBandi5 ай бұрын
Funny thing is that gamepass numbers are more scuffed than the PlayStation plus numbers. Because gamepass changed their xbox live model into a gamepass core. So everyone who had xbox live is now technically a "gamepass member." That explains why the gamepass member count jumped from 25 to 34 mill in just a year. I also found this quote from an article I found showing xbox gamepass lost members. "From there it doesn’t take long to figure out the math. 25 million Game Pass subs back in 2022, added to the reported 11.7 million Xbox Live Gold (now Game Pass Core), makes almost 37 million total. That’s approx. 8% difference, which - assuming there’s nothing behind the scenes that accounts for it - means that Xbox Game Pass has lost almost 3 million subscribers since 2022." Meaning that gamepass is declining.
@robertolbert35855 ай бұрын
also, Game pass is Core (6.99€) + Game pass console (9.99€) + PC Game pass(9.99€) + Gamepass Ultimate(14.99€). We do not know how much is actually Ultimate subscribers and how does it complare to PS plus structure. It makes more sense to simply compare the sum. 34 mil. vs 47 mil. There might be less Ultimate subscribers as PS plus premium subscribers or less PC game pass subscribers as PS plus Extra subscribers. Just saying
@Alphaghost-SP15 ай бұрын
Exactly, I was saying the same thing, Gamepass has tiers as well and they forced live users into Gamepass to increase user base
@adrianvega32295 ай бұрын
Don’t worry about it tho it will shoot up if cod is in the gamepass day 1. I find so crazy how much we all care about if Microsoft is making money lol. I don’t care if they’re losing subs or money if I can subscribe and get a bunch of cool games at my disposal I’m all for it why should it matter to me if it’s a good business model for them? All those big names at Xbox and Microsoft are millionaires.
@AkinokazeHaruichiban4 ай бұрын
That math doesn't add up though as it's incomplete data. That's taking the old 25 million gamepass number [console+PC+ultimate] and just directly adding gold to it. Many people would have already had both gamepass and gold as it was, and with gold/core being included in ultimate, a switch from gold+console to just ultimate would be a reduction in the total number without losing any subscribers. Similarly, if people had been subbing to console and PC separately, then upgraded to ultimate, the number would drop from 2 to 1 but no subs were actually lost. Without a full and transparent breakdown of the numbers, 34m being lower than 37m is actually completely meaningless and highly misleading.
@GetAwesomeGaming5 ай бұрын
Latency requires physical infrastructure. That’s great in a city where the majority of the population have access to fiber but the reality is you aren’t going to have that infrastructure in developing markets. Asmon is way more bullish on cloud than the reality of the situation suggests
@Arthur_Grey345 ай бұрын
Thats why I don't care for it at the moment. I'm in rural WV with bad internet, unless they upgrade my infrastructure here I simply can't take advantage of it.
@solidkwon5 ай бұрын
Yea I dont see Brazil and India being able to be viable cloud stream gaming markets in the next 5 years. Just seems unrealistic to expect thst. If MS strategy is currently based on such looooooong-term expansion plan, then their current action of layoffs doesnt make much sense to me
@Edge501995 ай бұрын
@@solidkwon Honestly Brazil and India will probably get better connection earlier than countries like Germany. When I lived there I was shocked to see that they still don't have fibers in their big cities and have awful connection compare to everywhere in East Europe.
@baneintherain5 ай бұрын
Yeah, if cloud was so great why did Stadia die at launch essentially? 😅 We don't have the infrastructure for it and won't for a long time in most places.
@theMobileJourno5 ай бұрын
Yes but also 10s of millions from the developing world are moving to first world countries every year. Make the customers come to infrustructure...
@insanittiez48605 ай бұрын
The thing that people miss is how much unaffordable cloud gaming is for majority of the world. Most third world nations do not provide unlimited data. Streaming COD for 4hrs at max performance might be all it takes to exhaust a months worth of data. Simply put, even if the software ever gets there, Cloud gaming will basically only be restricted to first world nations
@plantex6255 ай бұрын
This is interesting, I never thought of that. So basically what youre saying is: Cloud gaming requires unlimited data --> only relatively wealthy people have unlimited data --> cloud data is only accessible to the relatively wealthy but they can afford hardware so they dont need it --> cloud gaming will not open any new markets?
@insanittiez48605 ай бұрын
@@plantex625 It may open new markets but I think Asmon, by not knowing the data costs, doesn’t include that in his predictions. The reason why disk games are still popular in 3rd world nations is because of data speeds and data in general. I grew up in Cameroon and it’s so bad, it could take most of your day just to download a movie. Even when I went to visit, I was constantly paying an astronomical amount just to add data so I can watch KZbin for most of the day. The amount I spend on unlimited here was only enough to barely cover 2 weeks and that’s with me using my rich American money. Look at the minimum wage in these countries and you will find out how unaffordable it is to constantly pay for those high data rates.
@quasadra5 ай бұрын
not only that but the speed and latency requirements of cloud gaming means the service cost is on the high side even if they are available.
@steveiguana68875 ай бұрын
That isn't solely a problem in 3rd world nations. Some ISPs in the US have monthly bandwidth caps (ex. Xfinity). Not to mention, there are many places in the US that don't have fast internet. The legal definition of high speed internet in the US is only 25mbps, which isn't that much. If you want good latency and performance from streaming games in the cloud, you might be hard pressed finding that speedy fiber optic connection outside of large metro areas.
@minkyb5 ай бұрын
This is where they make most their money sooooo I don't think they are worried about unlimited 5g/5g+/6g and wifi 6-7. It's just if enough can convert in the next 5+ years. Many other countries even less profitable are also investing into cloud based gaming that we never heard of that Microsoft teamed with. It doesn't have to be competitive just playable. Playstation blocked 200 countries from helldivers 2 without a care. No gain for them due to wealth, regulations, or population. Even their new game launching on steam is the exact same.
@Russian_Waifu5 ай бұрын
I guess people didn't want to own nothing and be happy.
@Gimpo9255 ай бұрын
look at what ubisoft did, you own the game but then they decided not to support it anymore and recalled all the keys to those games. So, you never owned it either.
@GXtera5 ай бұрын
the truth is, owning or renting/streaming, the only thing that matters is playing the games. and buying digital media isnt owning anyway so might aswell take the cheaper option.
@cs87125 ай бұрын
you will beta test the games you will find ze bugz and you will be happy
@Wandersnatch.5 ай бұрын
Has been a thing with digital media for a while, look at how they censored and removed things from the Skullgirls artbook people brought on steam
@felipebrena69185 ай бұрын
idk why yall really want to own something, a casual gamer is always trying to play new games, I bought Hogwarts fineshed the game and I'll never look at it again unless there's a DLC, the game is not even installed anymore. I would much happier if I had played it for $10 than $70, couldnt care less about not owning it. I moved from my xbox X to pc and right now I just downloaded Jedi Survivor, Madden 24, manors lord, if I had to buy it would have cost a lot, what means that I simply wouldnt have the opportunity to play this games now, truly dont understand the hate with gamepass
@BioMatic25 ай бұрын
Does asmond has any idea of how shitty internet is here on south america? There is no way that cloud gaming would succed here on a big scale.
@ben-hurray5 ай бұрын
Over centuries it will get better
@spencer67095 ай бұрын
@@ben-hurraythink you meant decades dawg
@bogstandardash37515 ай бұрын
You BRICS countries will have money very soon, essentially you are getting away using the dollar for trade.
@MF-Shogun-Mouro5 ай бұрын
Your obviously uneducated about the subject, South America median speed is relatively fast. Fiber optics became the primary source for internet in South America in 2021 and by 2028 will be 90% of connections. Chile has the 5th fastest internet by median in the world, faster then the US. Brazil is 27th and Costa Rica and Peru have approximately the same internet speed.
@chadmagnus58505 ай бұрын
There are people here in Hungary, who still get internet only through satellite and mobile.
@RyeinGoddard5 ай бұрын
Also one thing everyone is missing is once they get you and the majority on Game Pass they will jack up the price like Netflix did.
@zonedout33905 ай бұрын
Realistically, even if it was 20 for normal GP a month, and $30-35 for ultimate a month. It's still worth it in the yr over yr or even on a month to month basis. People seem to forget games cost $75 a pop now a days or even $40 for half decent good indie titles. What would you rather do? Spend 20-35 a month to try it out and several hundred titles you may never buy but curious about or buy every game and regret it because it's a shit game? Clearly if you have kids it's new to them so it's good for a family situation. At the end of the day it's a good deal even if it was $50 a month it's still cheaper then a movie date with a woman.
@arianoooamari69495 ай бұрын
@@zonedout3390no it’s not worth. It’s not worth at all cause you won’t have the time to play those games cause the majority of people play 2-3 games a year or only one particular game. Only >1% of players have that much free time to really use GP exhaustively.
@TreesPlease425 ай бұрын
It's great for families and people with a lot of time + no library
@jimmyngo21915 ай бұрын
@@zonedout3390I'm playing the sims 3 for the last 3 years. I know lots of people just playing one game or 2-3 games years after years. So about 50% of people will think 30-40 bucks a month is a waste of money. I can only play 3 hrs a day (max) and I know most adults who have a job will be in the same situation.
@AzurePrower5 ай бұрын
Players of Blizzard games: Thank you! Thank you! Microsoft has freed us! Microsoft: Oh, I wouldn't say freed. More like, under new management.
@horizont61725 ай бұрын
Hall, Megamind - nov 5, 2010
@cablefeed37385 ай бұрын
Blizzard is responsible for a lot of its own failures. It has nothing to do with who owns it.
@RIP_ZYZZ17385 ай бұрын
No no no no no no no no. Blizzard caused effectively all its issues
@Jobocan.5 ай бұрын
@@cablefeed3738The people that own them can tell them to stop fucking up. Many people can have responsibility at the same time.
@temjinAMG5 ай бұрын
They could sell blizzard and keep Activision
@GamerNineSix5 ай бұрын
"Latency will improve" - except for that it won't unless you either bring the people closer to the data center or the data center closer to the people, because of speed of light
@lekrashar5 ай бұрын
God and that's if we lived in a perfect world where distance would be the only issue "There, have your network congestion. Sorry not sorry, line is just full" "What do you mean we have countries that has less latency playing with foreigners than with themselves" "Sorry, construction workers has just cut your optical fiber lines, this could have been totally avoided teehee" "Oh your ISP is down for maintenance. Btw, the contract said it's this bitrate so don't complain we can't keep it up lol" Unless the cloud is directly inside people's building, latency will NEVER improve
@kawkasaurous5 ай бұрын
You can find maps of data centers to be built and you'll notice they are a little more rural but they'll be located based of the population they serve to reduce latency.
@Frank_Einstein.5 ай бұрын
Yep. Cloud gaming as a product may become more reliable over time, but that doesn't necessarily mean everyone can still use it reliably. Lots of people, especially outside of urban areas, have internet access that isn't close to what's necessary for using cloud gaming.
@Ryanlexz5 ай бұрын
ikr Microsoft is following google stadia lmao
@spazco86695 ай бұрын
billions of people don't care about latency. That's why cloud gaming is a booming market. It's not aimed at the hardcore gamer same way as netflix isn't aimed at cinephiles with home movie setups. Guess which one is more popular, the poor quality streamed movies or the 4k Blu-ray and surround sound setup.
@I_am_Dad_Son5 ай бұрын
If they really want to tap into the PC market, all they'd have to do is bite the bullet and get Steam implementation.
@gavingibson89655 ай бұрын
or stop blatantly hyping up games to just put them on one special platform. my pc can run every single new xbox game, but they only let you play about 25% of them. and you need to have the blizzard launcher installed, running in the background, for your xbox launcher to even work correctly.
@nathanhargenrader6455 ай бұрын
??? they put all their games on steam....
@LOTHRIX175 ай бұрын
@@nathanhargenrader645 What he meant is making Game Pass directly on Steam, Kinda like How u can get the EA PLAY Subscription directly from Steam Store👀
@joku21215 ай бұрын
Or make xbox shop a lot better
@ShadowRubberDuck5 ай бұрын
Microsoft: but that would mean less money in our pockets… and less information/data from individuals…
@Brandon-pi4hg5 ай бұрын
The number 1 bar to entry for gamepass in my opinion is people are sick of subscription based crap. Sure I get a lot of great games for a cheap price but what happens if I stop paying Microsoft? They disable my ability to play said games online or altogether. Yeah stuff it, I'm not paying you to gatekeep me out of my own games
@bmark69715 ай бұрын
Bro they arent your games unless you purchase them. In which case you dont need gamepass to play them anymore. And unless your buying a physical disc, you dont own it! Even physical discs can be made to no longer function via update.
@BeardLasers5 ай бұрын
I feel for the first time in history there are multiple massive corporations that are hitting total market saturation and the financial panic is setting in... interesting times.
@vogue435 ай бұрын
Someone tell Asmon about the speed of light.
@uzbekistanplaystaion4BIOScrek5 ай бұрын
@proudofyourroots9575 single mode, glass optical fibre, which afaik is the industry standard for medium to long range connections, adds about 1 milisecond of latency per 200 kilometres. add on a few miliseconds for routing and optical modem overhead, then, unless you live literally thousands of kilometres from the nearest datacentre with these cloud gaming machines, the added latency should be 30 miliseconds or less. for multiplayer games, some of this latency can be recouped by colocating the cloud gaming machines with the game servers, thereby reducing client-server latency to single-digit miliseconds, compared to ~30ms for regular users living within reasonable distance to those game servers. the speed of light is not the problem. the real issues for cloud gaming imo are bandwidth, data caps and economics. geforce now, for example, recommends a bandwidth of 50 Mb/s for 1080p60 on their service (although ofc they use variable bitrate encoding for tolerance), that can already be a tall ask for many people, especially in developing countries (south america, india, etc., as asmon mentioned). assuming you do have that bandwidth reliably and that it *does* actually use all 50 Mb/s for streaming the game, that would use up ~22 *Gigabytes* of data for an hour of gaming. many people (again, especially in developing countries) have data caps on their internet, often in the houndreds of gigabytes per month, which this would easily chew through in a matter of days. this would make it an extreme non-starter for many, unless microsoft/xbox negotiate exceptions with their isps. then there's the economics: building up cloud-gaming capacity is a big capital risk, plus the cost of electricity, the cost of data on their end, plus maintenance and management, hardware depreciation, and all that on top of their current capital risk of putting games on game pass AND the inevitable desire for higher profit margins (otherwise why bother with all of this?). somehow all of this has to be priced competetively versus buying a console/pc outright, which i don't see happening right now.
@spacejunk21865 ай бұрын
"The speed of light is always getting better."
@Jairjax5 ай бұрын
@proudofyourroots9575 quantum superposition is definitely going to be the far far future of internet. No need to worry about light speed.
@purpleey5 ай бұрын
What does speed of light have to do with anything
@xandypunk73505 ай бұрын
LoL
@askel64985 ай бұрын
Do all these companies constantly fucking up still make enough money? Cause all I hear is:"Oh this flopped, and this didn't sell, and this upset people and noone is playing it." but none of these companies seems to go broke and just vanish. Why?
@chuckchan41275 ай бұрын
Actually, companies are closing and the game industry is in the middle of a bloodbath of layoffs.
@First_Last_fuk_YT5 ай бұрын
Hello socialism
@allhopeabandon78315 ай бұрын
I think they are being subsidized by someone...there's no way that CEOs and all the intelligent ppl that huge mega-corps like these have at their disposal, can consistently make the same mistakes over, and over, and over, when 99% of the fans know exactly what they need to do in order to be successful...this is willful and intentionally kicking themselves in the balls.
@kawkasaurous5 ай бұрын
Depends on the company. A company like Activision blizzard subsidizes failures with wow Companies like Arkane Austin shut down
@Nonlifting_breezy5 ай бұрын
How do you expect Microsoft to go broke when their fourth biggest money maker is failing?
@donk3ypunchzero5 ай бұрын
Subscriptions lead to customer hesitancy. "This new release looks good, I'll wait for it to be on gamepass"
@Xiargon5 ай бұрын
This game looks good I’ll wait for it to be on steam sell. Well that’s my thinking
@donk3ypunchzero5 ай бұрын
@@Xiargon that's not the topic though.
@tihseht4725 ай бұрын
Yeah I feel like Microsoft really wanted the subscribe n forget you subscribed types of ppl but in this economy ain't nobody forgetting so it's schedule your vacation time or wait for holidays n sub for a month, game a ton n unsub. Lol however I will say it did force Sony to try n compete n Microsoft can tank more $ then Sony can. Hell look what they've been able to do with exclusives as Sony is looking like they dropping exclusivity as well now so perhaps it worked to plan after all.
@kev1nno5 ай бұрын
Same thing with many publishers who put their games on sale really soon after release. I know someone who always buys Ubisoft games at release, but has finally decided to stop recently because she knows it'll just go on a 50% discount 3 months later anyway, with bugfixes, performance improvements and QoL updates as an added bonus, so what's the point in buying it on release? That's one of the reasons why Nintendo games sell so well - there's no hesitancy waiting for a better deal, because the best you'll get is 30% off, years down the line, and the games generally release in a pretty finished state. Meanwhile on the same platform you look at Mario vs Rabbids Sparks of Hope (from Ubisoft again, funny how that works, huh?) which everyone saw and went "looks nice - I'll grab it when the gold edition is like $15, like I did with the first game", and then the game didn't sell well at release at all
@XenosImplyer5 ай бұрын
That is what happened with Hi-Fi RUSH. The game pass cannibalized the game's sales and it led to Microsoft seeing the game as a failure. The game pass like EGS is where games go to die.
@marctech19965 ай бұрын
Bro utterly embarrassed himself with his „analysis“ of PS Plus vs. Game Pass and then kept on clinging to his false narrative
@user-el8fc5xg9h5 ай бұрын
"I don't think that xbox management is stupid" "I don't think xbox is mismanaged" He might be the only person who thinks this. He talks from a position of ignorance.
@Thefess5 ай бұрын
Its a potentially lose lose for them. Either they put cod on gamepass and lose sales since nobodys gonna pay $70 for something they get something for free with their game pass subscription. Or they dont put it on game pass and essentially lie and go back on their promise of 1st party games being on game pass day one which will 100% not go over well with pamepass users
@Fidilisfool5 ай бұрын
They already indicated they are putting it on gamepass. Lots of folks will still buy it including all folks playing it on PlayStation. They will also get a larger audience for cod which will increase revenue of micro transactions which already makes more then game sales.
@Venomx-nb1jr5 ай бұрын
Someone should look at apex revenue vs new content development. You might be onto something with that micro transactions out pacing initial investment purchase costs. I know it’s absolutely the case with destiny 2.
@Ashbrash19985 ай бұрын
@@FidilisfoolDoesn't mean it will be a permanent increase though, most people hate the microtransactions. And the people who buy them are either: have enough money to buy stuff regularly or maybe one or two things. If you have people using gamepass to play an expensive game, that should tell you that they are concerned with saving money where they can.
@crazycowss5 ай бұрын
why everybody forget microtransactions anbd dlc ? with call of duty in the gamepass you make people stay on the gamepass with the multiplayer, then you make spend money with microtransactionsand dlc...boom you have a little less money but peacocks finally stay on the game pass.......they see offers on other games, they enjoy other games and oh..ther are dlc too?meh i didn't pay fot the game...meh i can pay for a dlc (hellooo power wash simulator :p)
@Thefess5 ай бұрын
I think more people will stay for the older call of duty titles if they do happen to be on gamepass. With the newer call of duty, people may not stick with it and just decide its not worth it and just buy it outright. But the older call of duty's, people have been clamouring for ways to play old cod titles for years on modern hardware amd won't be stuck to the ps3/ps4 era. I see users sticking to gamepass permanently.
@AyoKeito5 ай бұрын
I was always baffled by how corporations expect that they will grow forever. It already bites them in the ass when they can't, and they begin to cut corners...
@Frank_Einstein.5 ай бұрын
Much of the expectation comes from the law. Companies have a legally binding fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to make a profit.
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
The population has been on an exponential growth curve for 1000 years. These new people buy and sell products. This increase in people increase profits for companies. It's pretty simple
@Ryanlexz5 ай бұрын
@@Frank_Einstein. Blackrock gotta be stop
@AyoKeito5 ай бұрын
@@droyal18able not exponential for sure, and mostly in developing countries. Who are NOT buying your new star wars game for 140 bucks...
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
@@AyoKeito globally population growth is exponential. Believe it or not companies sell in different countries also.
@GBKakuzu5 ай бұрын
Something that wasn't discussed is that people just add 1 month of Game Pass, play the game they want, then cancel. A friend of mine does this. They pay about $10 for a AAA game. You can't make profit this way, or at least it isn't sustainable.
@hunterculpepper19735 ай бұрын
Also games being 60 dollars and 70 dollars for triple aaa is cheal but other than that it's only quilty yet we got terrible indie level aaa games well indie games are aaa level and stat the same price
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
So your saying it's a great deal for the customer.
@GBKakuzu5 ай бұрын
@@droyal18able That isn't really the topic, but I wouldn't know personally. From everything I've heard, yes. Good for the customer, but a burden on XBox.
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
@GBKakuzu Xbox gaming revenues increased by 16.5% in 2023, compared to $15.563 billion in 2022. Just look it up man. They are doing fine. All these people complaing don't know crap about business or investing.
@GBKakuzu5 ай бұрын
@@droyal18able Got it. They're closing studios for fun and the line on the graph during the Sarah Banks interview was going down because everything is great. 👍
@StarDragonJP5 ай бұрын
I gotta imagine if Hi-fi Rush hadn't been on Game Pass it would've had at least twice the sales. You could argue that its availability helped get the name out there and increased sales, but It was already getting a lot of attention before the game even came out. I'm sure that the word of mouth and people playing the game online would've gotten more people to get the game.
@GS_CCC5 ай бұрын
It would have like half at most. Gamepass gives you a discount + promotes the game way more, you can read interviews of smaller developers talking about how it helps the game.
@xandypunk73505 ай бұрын
It was shadowdroped in the direct. There was no attention before because nobody knew it exist
@AlienGenotype5 ай бұрын
18:51 Pretty weird statement there. We don’t have Game Boy’s anymore because first the DS and 3DS replaced it, and now Nintendo unified their console and handhelds with the Switch. THAT is why we don’t see Game Boy anymore.
@SL1PSTAR5 ай бұрын
Hats off to all the Game Pass users who find the time to play dozens of different games each month.
@stephsman515 ай бұрын
For sure. Sometimes when I get home from work I'll play Madden for about 45 min, then I'll play vampire survivors for about 45 minutes, then finish off the night with either fable or diablo 4. As someone who can get bored of a game for a few weeks, it's nice to have options to choose from to find my next game to play.
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
@@stephsman51 same here.
@Jairjax5 ай бұрын
It's a crazy good deal yeah.
@JaykeBlayde5 ай бұрын
"play" = download for 5 mins, try it for 20 mins, realize it sucks, uninstall and repeat
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
@@JaykeBlayde seems like a you problem.
@akatsukimi5 ай бұрын
Microsoft invested everything on Gamepass, but the subriscptions aren't enough. It's simple.
@RBFR015 ай бұрын
80% of the total xbox players (120 million total players) are not subscribed to game pass at all which means they all have silver xbox live status because there is no point having xbox live anymore. There just isn't any good new games because they're full of microtransactions and subscriptions and players are sick of subscriptions on everything.
@joshuabonorino95615 ай бұрын
@@RBFR01 where do you get your numbers?
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
Microsoft is a 3 trillion dollar company. Gamepass is like 1% of their profit big guy.
@Mojaveknight175 ай бұрын
Gamepass trained their users not to buy games but to wait
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
@@Mojaveknight17 you get early access and a discount on new games. You don't have to wait for anything.
@Duckman82135 ай бұрын
Animal Well took 8 years to make. Remember it was one person.
@chadmagnus58505 ай бұрын
Ghost of a Tale, an indie game that looked like a AAA game when it came out, was made by seven people, *if* I remember correctly.
@tiredman995 ай бұрын
And you have AAA games taking just as long with hundreds of people working on it
@meteor225 ай бұрын
Asmongold: "I don't think Microsoft is stupid. I don't think they are clueless on what they are doing" Me: They've proven just that for the last 11 years bro. 11 years...the Xbox One released in 2013. Let that sink in.
@MF-Shogun-Mouro5 ай бұрын
What's your point? Do you remember Series X|S in 2020? Who cares about Gen 8, you still playing WiiU?
@ilvanezzo5 ай бұрын
I am. I'm playing Wii U. Bought it last year, actually xD
@MF-Shogun-Mouro5 ай бұрын
@@ilvanezzo I think you misconstrued what I meant, lol. Yes people are still playing Gen 8 consoles but the online network was shutdown in 2019 and the market is not dependent on money from second hand console sales.
@meteor225 ай бұрын
@@MF-Shogun-Mouro My point is 2013 is when it went all downhill for Xbox. They've had 11 years to turn it around and still can't.
@MF-Shogun-Mouro5 ай бұрын
@@meteor22 Not true, Xbox a subsidiary of Microsoft profits grew by 50% year over year just in 2020-2021. Xbox profits are dependent on software sales, not console sales.
@josephc72725 ай бұрын
Idk about all yall I love just owning my physical copy of the game I don’t need 100 plus games as a subscription service when I’m never going play many of those.
@kavid81205 ай бұрын
Tell us you’re old
@illusionofquality9795 ай бұрын
@@kavid8120 He is right, and I'm not even old. Old people have the movie/book backlog, young people have the gaming backlog.
@kraviznina5 ай бұрын
Physical copy is just becoming link to server where the game is.
@boodrowwilson18945 ай бұрын
Some of my games are scratched, and yeah it's my fault but also it's probably never going to change , so dont like that part
@sumstuff69565 ай бұрын
@@kavid8120so people gotta be old to not be dumb and to actually want to own things they buy?🤡 tell us you ain’t fully vaccinated 😂
@GatMan8085 ай бұрын
Since GamePass came out, I’ve been saying the it would be the killer of Xbox. It reminded me of all the streaming services that are cluttered with content. The appreciation for playing a game all the way through is lost because you have so many options of games to play. Also a first party game releases going to game pass day one is a terrible idea overall
@DirkSchlemmer-tw8kp5 ай бұрын
Xbox is dead since the 2010s. Must be the most resiliant zombie ever.
@GatMan8085 ай бұрын
@@DirkSchlemmer-tw8kp since the Phil Spencer takeover and the Xbox one media machine in 2013? I can definitely agree with that.
@GS_CCC5 ай бұрын
Unless you are from a rich first world country were games are 60 bucks instead of almost half the min wage Xbox gamepass is like the best thing that happened to games since steam.
@DirkSchlemmer-tw8kp5 ай бұрын
@@GatMan808 you know that was sarcastic.
@originalscreenname445 ай бұрын
@@GS_CCC It's a good deal until it isn't. Just like the OP mentioned, Game Pass is just a rehash of what the streaming services have been going through recently. They found out that the price to keep content on the service outweighed subscriptions so they had to do things like raise prices (Netflix costs almost 3 times as much as it did 10 years ago to get essentially the same level of service) or add ads to subsidize those costs. Expect Microsoft to continue to boost the cost of Game Pass over time until it becomes untenable as a monthly service. I have a feeling the breaking point will be $25 USD/month.
@sunsinger9705 ай бұрын
All these subscriptions are made by companies who don't understand how netflix became successful. (It started small and took almost twenty years) Netflix was built on old unappreciated content from third party publishers. GOG is the closest thing in gaming to Netflix, it's just not a subscription.
@AndrewRyan-zv7zb5 ай бұрын
Netflix was ONLY successful during the period which they had most media in it, and Xbox just spent a decade buying up almost every studio and IP.
@aconceitedbeast7315 ай бұрын
Corporations want you to have to pay for subscriptions. You will own nothing unless you VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET! Digital only sucks!!
@duerf58265 ай бұрын
People have already voted with their wallet. Steam, a digital only platform, is more popular than ever and the last time Valve made a physical PC disc was in 2011 with release of Portal 2. Digital already won.
@spazco86695 ай бұрын
lol. Vote with your wallet. Digital, live service and microtransactions won. They decimated physical. it wasn't even close.
@getsueinaito5 ай бұрын
@@duerf5826 Digital was great until it was revealed we can lose access to titles. But overall I still like digital
@abdeath41695 ай бұрын
Finally someone who understands that buying digital games and subscription are the same in the concept that you own nothing
@dragonninja36555 ай бұрын
I would never pay for a digital game. It is the main reason I don't want a PC. I wouldn't even play on PC if I got a fancy one for free. I see no appeal in not owning things.
@paulharsh785 ай бұрын
I’m glad i played Starfield on gamepass vs spending $70 for a few hours of gameplay
@I2dios85 ай бұрын
This guy saying that 500$ for a console isn't an inhibitive cost for a lot of people is crazy to me.
@chadmagnus58505 ай бұрын
Some people have no sense of price scale. I own a Xaomei Redmi Note 10 Pro. It cost me a month worth of my salary, back when I bought it. Some guy who reviewed it here on YT, called it a budget phone and was surprised it came with it's own charger and a silicone phone case, in the box.
@drazgul15 ай бұрын
@@chadmagnus5850 That's a budget phone in any 1st world country for sure. That's nothing on most people salaries in Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan or Australia
@balancebreaker15615 ай бұрын
Its asmongold, what do you expect
@chadmagnus58505 ай бұрын
@@drazgul1 I am Hungarian, and this shows the difference in economies.
@I2dios85 ай бұрын
@@balancebreaker1561 Asmon didn't say that, the dude he's reacting to said that...
@xneo3295 ай бұрын
The industry can't crash fast enough
@davidmoak12195 ай бұрын
Yeah can we just all line up and push the entire fucking thing over? I'm done with triple AAA gaming. Trash all the big companies that used to be good back in the day because all the stuff indie devs are popping out is MORE than adequate to redefine quality for the gaming industry. They actually have standards because they're made by gamers, for gamers.
@Jobocan.5 ай бұрын
@@davidmoak1219 We can, it's called stop buying games for a few years. No old games, no new games, revenue needs to stop entirely. Of course it has to be most people doing that. The reason this crash is so slow (it started somewhere between 2008 to 2012) is that, despite all the shit, people are still buying. Things will only get stupider while people keep supporting it. Something like Ubisoft selling Star Wars Outlaws for 120$ with basically nothing to warrant the upcharge, it will become standard practice, and eventually the default version of games. We never criticized horse armor hard enough.
@fallout11165 ай бұрын
We need the gaming crash of 1983 again, to rid us of this dreck (like E.T. the game).
@wompastompa36925 ай бұрын
Crashing this market, with NO survivors.
@SparkzthePrimagen5 ай бұрын
I guess i fit that cause i only buy retro games now from used markets. I completly lost hope for modern games and tired of not getting physical media thats complete.
@Flourfiending5 ай бұрын
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
@uzbekistanplaystaion4BIOScrek5 ай бұрын
please drink verification can
@greatredchicken5 ай бұрын
Never!
@DeathRecon5 ай бұрын
As a gamer I like gamepass, as a human I like buying the games and supporting the devs, like Alan Wake 2. There's certain games I'd prefer to own than borrow. Gamepass just feels like renting games. I'll get a month here and there but I'm not going to keep giving $15 well past the price of the one or two games I'm playing.
@heavymetalmixer915 ай бұрын
As a South-American local there's one thing to say about cloud gaming: It's an awful idea. Not only hardware is difficult to buy, our internet services are utter crap and extra latency is something that not a single gamer wants, mostly on multiplayer games.
@bigimportantman15445 ай бұрын
GamePass Ultimate costs slightly over $200 per year now. But Xbox releases far less than $200 worth of games that I would like to buy each year.
@Kiryu_Kazuma015 ай бұрын
Asmongold: “Microsoft knows what they’re doing” Yes, they do. But in software. The Xbox division doesn’t know what they are doing, and ESPECIALLY Phil doesn’t know what he is doing. Both Sony and Xbox are showing that they don’t know what they’re doing
@Voltron50005 ай бұрын
Tech companies, especially gaming, need to realize line cannot always go up, and the harder you try and make it go up the harder it's going to drop when it breaks
@EasyGameEh5 ай бұрын
in optimization theory they teach steepest descend method first and the guys with degrees in economics and management, future suits basically, are too dumb to understand it's often suboptimal and gives bad results long term and to remember more complex and applicable methods later in their life working in corpo. so at the end of the day they always overvalue ultra short term profits (or cutting losses by killing good studios) against long term sustainability and cumulative profits.
@WhatWillYouFind5 ай бұрын
We need another gaming crash like what happened in the 80s where nintendo single handedly propped up the entire industry because they were the least shitty and most consumer friendly of the bunch. I'd rather it be valve while gabben still draws breathe, imagine the biggest player in the pc games market gets law makers to stop the rug pull and cash grabbing shate. I can dream
@cablefeed37385 ай бұрын
You're crazy if you think it's just tech and game companies, every company thinks they can just go up forever. That's the foundation of the stock market.
@Frank_Einstein.5 ай бұрын
Companies have a legally binding fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to try to make a profit. "Line go up" is a function of fiscal law, not just unfettered capitalism.
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
All lines can keep going up as long as the global population keeps going up. That's how the economy works.
@Rob-Davidson5 ай бұрын
I had game pass for a long time, but I finally canceled it about a year ago. I was tired of paying for games that I had no control in selecting.
@Globodyne5 ай бұрын
Or buying DLC for a game that would disappear from your collection because Game pass games don't come with DLC.
@thesun92105 ай бұрын
Well, you're expected to buy the game you liked playing, same goes for dlc, you wouldn't buy dlc for a game you don't like and don't own.
@Globodyne5 ай бұрын
@@thesun9210 If i was going to buy a game it should as hell wouldn't be on the xbox store, it would be on steam.
@eljefe4855 ай бұрын
Not sure of what games you have played where they had left game pass. I noticed it is games that had fallen off. For the most part if I liked them, I bought them. There is a slight discount. I mostly use it for first party games or games. Most third party games leave if they flop. I think game pass is a deal since games are so damn expensive and for the price of just under three games a year for the game library and a gold subscription isn’t that bad of a deal.
@Arthur_Grey345 ай бұрын
@@Globodyne DLC for games is the main issue game pass is bad. They need to add in another tier or do something so you get all DLC with the game, I'm not ever going to buy DLC for a game I'm renting.
@bobbypaycheque5 ай бұрын
GamePass is great as a Blockbuster replacement. Not being able to rent games anymore does put up a huge barrier for people not economically positioned well enough to buy $70 dollar games every month.
@daRealB-Rex5 ай бұрын
or you could just wait for a sale
@pengwin-b4x5 ай бұрын
People don't get that MS goes the Disney way of buying IP to sell Merchandise, Movies, Shows and what not. Fallout and Halo are a great example for that. They want that sweet Star Wars money, not that poor gamer money.
@ImViruxx5 ай бұрын
Microsoft’s main platform is Game Pass, not Xbox. It’s even Microsoft gaming now, not Xbox.
@olivierpayette42845 ай бұрын
You guys love rumors
@landonl9585 ай бұрын
Bloodborne is probably the single reason I'm barely holding out for Sony to pull their heads from their over-growing rectums. Microsoft has nothing compared to that single title. It's unfortunate the executives of both companies are thirsty for that stockholder juice.
@RBFR015 ай бұрын
The stock holders control the companies decisions.
@Kanha..20005 ай бұрын
Bro there is god of war last of us control
@igoriksanov95395 ай бұрын
The thing that's holding back the growth of game pass is it's marketing. Whenever you see an ad for game pass they only show their exclusive line up, which are games most people don't care about. If they displayed their big third party titles in their marketing, I believe a lot more people would consider the service. There are so many AAA and indie games that come out day one of the service that people are unaware of.
@Darko8075 ай бұрын
Exactly. I've never engaged with game pass or XBox in general but from an outside perspective I totally agree with you. They are so obessed by their need to show their exclusivity that they lose sight of the picture itself or the future they could achieve.
@sjneow5 ай бұрын
Though the major 3rd party titles if they end up on GamePass after a year or so, the same game likely ends up on PS Plus around the same time. Microsoft can market them, but likely PlayStation will counter the same.
@dawsynasay48415 ай бұрын
Marketing isn’t the issue. The problem with GP is that the majority of people who play games only have time for 3-5 a year. People are also tired of subscriptions and don’t want to add another one to their wallet where they’ll maybe play a handful of games. Video games are not as easily consumed as movies or shows; it’s not a viable option at all.
@igoriksanov95395 ай бұрын
@@sjneow They have a lot more games day one than PS+ and cover a wider variety of genres. Some examples I can think of off the top of my head are remnant 2, lies of p, plague tale, that new star wars game, signalis, sea of stars, the entire Yakuza/like a dragon catalogue and the persona remasters. Plus a bunch of sim/strat nerdy dad games.
@dragonninja36555 ай бұрын
Or people just don't want to rent their games and want to actually own them. I would never buy something I live digitally, whether it is a videogame, TV series, or movie.
@Blag_Cog5 ай бұрын
Gamepass also has different tiers like PS+ So the 33m gamepass is compared to 47m PS+.
@ttrev0075 ай бұрын
cloud gaming relies on the infrastructure to be better. the US is slow to upgrade to fiber even today they are still installing copper so it will be a long time before we have the fiber needed for cloud gaming for wide adoption.
@rafa92205 ай бұрын
17:10 data proves Asmon is wrong "Guys I don't want to talk about this anymore this is stupid guys"
@Itzaraya15 ай бұрын
I'm the exact person gamepass streaming was made for. I don't own an Xbox or pc but I do have a newer Samsung TV that has gamepass streaming built in. I will never have a reason to buy an Xbox because of it
@RBFR015 ай бұрын
Enjoy that input and connection delay.
@Itzaraya15 ай бұрын
@@RBFR01 ive been using it for a year without issue?
@jorgef0055 ай бұрын
Your coping for no reason. Are you 16? Let the man enjoy his streaming service. @@RBFR01
@doctorsilva13455 ай бұрын
@@Itzaraya1 That's because you have nothing to compare it to. I'm sure if you bought the actual console you would see a much clearer picture and less input lag.
@Itzaraya15 ай бұрын
@@doctorsilva1345 i didn't day I don't own a console. I don't own an Xbox or pc but I have a PS5. The lengths people go to just to say they have bad internet is wild.
@woodsgump5 ай бұрын
With the Microsoft situation going on right now, I wanna say for GamePass and game preservation/supporting game developers from my perspective is that it’s a mixed bag. Like don’t get me wrong, I love GamePass. I like the notion that it’s like Blockbuster (man I’m old) and that I can rent a game, play it, if I like it I could buy the actual game or something for if I don’t like it, I can simply uninstall it without buyer’s remorse. There are so many good games that I’ve played like Double Fine products (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts), Vampire Survivors, Age of Empires, etc. But when it comes to games that I want to preserve physically or want to keep, I’ll buy it physical like Jedi Survivor, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Armored Core VI. I think it’s a good idea that these huge games should not come to GamePass because it actually supports the developers. Also yes I may own a few digital games online with Elden Ring and all but that’s because I’m lazy lol.
@dubjubs5 ай бұрын
I'd say the opposite just because those huge games are usually devolved by big companies with plenty of money while the indie developers seem to get screwed especially with how short a lot of indie developer games are. Honestly probably hurts both of them if the game flops but at least a company like Square Enix can bounce back
@DIOBrando-ij2bp5 ай бұрын
Nintendo does still make a “Game Boy,” it’s called the Switch, and it’s one of the best selling systems ever made. Microsoft’s big move for Game Pass is going to be getting it on the other consoles. They want Game Pass on everything. Anything that can have Game Pass is a place they want it to be. But at the moment the biggest untapped markets for them would be PlayStation and Switch. I wouldn’t be surprised if Game Pass shows up on Switch 2 when that comes out in what sounds like it could be the very near future. I don’t see consoles going away anytime soon. Not until there’s a cheaper option...which the PC isn’t. Like the moment something like Game Pass just works on your television, or works on something like a Roku, that’ll be the end of “consoles” most likely. But that isn’t happening for a while. Even if consoles have just one more generation after this one that’s still another decade. Thing is America’s Internet infrastructure is garbage, so streaming games here as some king of massive business is kind of off the table for now. Like if these companies really want to get into streaming gaming here they’re going to need to build the infrastructure for it across America first.
@dragonninja36555 ай бұрын
I wouldn't use a PC even if I was given one for free. I'd just sell it to someone else. They'd need to put disc drives back into PCs for me to even consider it. I have zero interest in digital games, I don't want rentals.
@Kirathian12345 ай бұрын
Asmon's take on Cloud Gaming has not panned out and the tech demonstrably works right now. Nvidia's service is the best in the business and it still hasn't "taken off" after YEARS. Google's attempt was a disaster. Sony and MS offer it but the vast majority of people stick to local hardware. What is the point of selling consumers powerful phones, computers, tablets, and consoles if we are going to stream everything? You think those computer hardware industries are just going to stop making those things? This tech has been around for over a decade. It works in today's world and virtually nobody cares. It's a supplementary service and that's great for the people that use it for whatever reason but unless hundreds of consumer focused product industries all suddenly collapse at once cloud streaming is certainly not going to be "the future of video games."
@No1SumOneTV5 ай бұрын
"Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way". - Famous Guy
@LogicReel5 ай бұрын
Theres a typo at the end, it is "But life uh... finds a way"
@ZootOuttaHere5 ай бұрын
- Lil Pump
@kpsk80315 ай бұрын
Game Pass is bad for the industry and bad for the customer in the long run. It's the horrible idea of a company that has too much money.
@juanrolandodelarosa15505 ай бұрын
How is paying the price of 2 AAA games a year for over 100 games bad for the customer?
@droyal18able5 ай бұрын
You can play all the new ea games. Madden, fifa, NBA 2k, ncaa football, forza, all Bethesda games all for 120 a year and access to thousands of other titles. Some come and go but they let you know way ahead of time so just play it before it's replaced.
@kpsk80315 ай бұрын
@@juanrolandodelarosa1550 because it's an economically unsustainable business model by a wealthy company designed to kill competition. It's like selling a loaf of bread for $1 in order to destroy all bakeries in the area.
@kpsk80315 ай бұрын
@@juanrolandodelarosa1550 wealthy company destroys competition by subsidizing an unsustainable business model.
@Sir_Him5 ай бұрын
@@juanrolandodelarosa1550 Stagnation, that's why.
@eljefe4855 ай бұрын
I don’t understand why companies think a service subscription will keep growing. If everyone has it, there is very limit new customers. Plus call of duty makes most of their revenue from micro transactions
@lionzcrown17025 ай бұрын
Because they have the best one and the highest subscriber base. But when they want the whole business to be based off of it yeah, not enough lol
@janirobe5 ай бұрын
There is a such thing as too much choice. Difference is when you go to buy one game, the choice is easier and you are invested in that game more. So you are more likely to finish it and enjoy the experience. Stakes are involved outside the game. With Netflix vs blockbuster same thing
@helloasa92965 ай бұрын
Everyone is different. But for me that's 100% true. In late December. I got 3 month Xbox pc pass as gift. In less than a week I download many game and hardly play any. I end up playing games I already own on my PC and switch. When I buy game. The there are little more thought put in that decision compare to subscription downloads. So that also factors in longevity of play time.
@dacco94145 ай бұрын
Game pass on any platform is good for me. It takes me about 2-3 weeks to play through any game and feel satistied. So i just sub for that time, and then cancel sub. So 15-18 bucks instead of a 70 dollar base game, is a great deal for me. I don't care what you call me. I call me smart. :)
@alecrambles32595 ай бұрын
To be honest as a Xbox user, they should have just kept gamepass a indie only thing, and just gave money to indie developers rather than buying up all these studios. You build up a good relationship with these developers, while also making yourself look good
@daRealB-Rex5 ай бұрын
so essentially just a subscription-based version of Xbox Live Arcade from the 360 days. I could get behind that
@sickmit34815 ай бұрын
If they keep messing up the game versions like they do on so many games on gamepass its really not going to improve at all. So many games get updates later than other platforms. Modding is so much more difficult compared to Steam. And the worst problem is that if you play certain games on Gamepass you have to link your account to another launcher like battlenet and that causes so many errors sometimes like battlenet not recognizing that you actually own the game through game pass temporarily which made playing D4 impossible for some friends of mine even though they payed for game pass.
@TD718595 ай бұрын
*paid
@Thatspearchucker90005 ай бұрын
Mircosoft game pass will save the Mircosoft console? So they brought all those studios shut down the best ones. So what's left is call of duty.
@Thatspearchucker90005 ай бұрын
Nevermind the next cod already floped be being announced
@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc5 ай бұрын
And Halo ES and Fallout
@3DModelsToys5 ай бұрын
Save console? Xbox consoles sales never sold well, it never was a priority. They always aimed to go full digital with game pass in many platforms as possible and now they are doing that. The game pass is their holy grail, their main focus, consoles sales are secondary because, well, Microsoft as a trillion dollar company can afford to do that. It always have been like that in the last years, they were preparing for going full digital and multiplatform and they are finally doing it. Sony is also following the same path with their exclusives releasing on PC digitally.
@sickshotgaming96475 ай бұрын
The gamepass numbers also include the now merged xbox live gold numbers too. So PS+ technically has more. Take away essential and gamepass core and gamepass does has rougly double the subs
@ramos3x5 ай бұрын
I recently watched Buckaroo Banzai and the antagonist looks just like Asmongold, young John Lithgow
@OneWayTwoBrazil5 ай бұрын
I fail to find the value in Gamepass when Im unable to clear my Steam backlog of games as-is.
@GamerayVideos5 ай бұрын
Why rent my games on Gamepass or Steam when i can OWN my games on GOG?
@RockyRZ5 ай бұрын
It’s cheaper to rent
@Gaze735 ай бұрын
It's great if you're into single playthroughs. Why own a $60 game if I'll be done with it forever in 15 hours?
@jaybee88625 ай бұрын
@@RockyRZ depends how long ur renting... I find it much cheaper to just wait for things to go on sale on Steam
@RegalRogue5 ай бұрын
I can't understand how game devs make reasonable amount money being on game pass
@vardes85445 ай бұрын
Same, even if lets say microsofts cut was 2bucks, rest goes split between developers of games played by the user based on playtime, for ease lets count sub cost at 20usd, -2bucks for microsoft, so 18usd left for devs. Lets say You release a big title, 70usd on steam. User would have to exclusively play one game for over 3months to come near the store-cost, and its also split into 3 separate monthly payments with no interest. And a quarter of a year is hella long time, even for casual gamers who play like 5hours per week. And if the game is actually great, and that same casual gamer stretches his weekly play time to 10hours, its only worse for you, because you potentially loose that 3rd payment. Only way for them to make any profit is gamepass-subsidized studios in-house focusing on games just for that, since their costs are calculated into overall revenue. Only viable thing I'd see would be adding it to gamepass after at least 6months of the game being out to supplement revenue while working on expansion/dlc or a new game..
@baneintherain5 ай бұрын
They don't. Exactly why HiFi Rush didn't sell enough and the studio was shut down. Even if it was good.
@latuman5 ай бұрын
Asmon thinking cloud gaming "will get better" and remove latency shows he knows absolutely nothing about network infrastructure. Unless you uproot absolutely everything and replace everything, you cannot cloud game a mouse and keyboard game that requires any reflexes. It is a physical impossibility. Your server has to be in the same building basically
@gdriscoll49475 ай бұрын
They need to make game pass like KZbin. Anyone can create a game and submit it to game pass for people to play as long as they are subscribed. The creators get money based on the number of downloads.
@buddymac15 ай бұрын
Gamepass is a ridiculously good value right now. It's like the early days of Netflix before all the publishers pulled their content for their own subscription. Get in while the getting's good, and cancel once Xbox fuxks it up.
@ignacioariellopez84915 ай бұрын
Theres another side to the story, specifically for us "poor" countries. One of the games im enjoying the MOST lately (because of studying and what not), is Minecraft dungeons. Buying it on steam, mojang, or whatever platform is INSANE, insanely INSANE. I cant give the full context, but some numbers so that people have some idea. On ANY platform, the game is 70.000+ of our currency. Game pass is 5.000 per month. DLCS 2.000 each and are a few (4 or 5). I bought them all. Game pass has opened MANY doors for people like me (Which, im not kidding, we are more than 50% of any third world countries) to play, enjoy, and somewhat support (i guess?) developers that without game pass either we would have to pirate or play in like 5 years. (Happened exactly that with me and Witcher 3, WITCHER 3) May not be perfect, may have its flaws, but it also helped A LOT to some people. Extra. Same to palworld, a game that i cant even buy with 2 full month salaries without eating rice for months, i enjoyed it so much the day IT RELEASED without pirating it thanks to game pass.
@hammersticks71385 ай бұрын
Call of duty is $70. I don’t buy the skins because they’re also pricey. On top of the expensive game. But if they put the game on game pass I’d probably be more likely to buy a season pass or skin. And that’s what I think is part of their frame of reference.
@anonymousanonymous37075 ай бұрын
Bingo 👍
@MikeKrasnenkov5 ай бұрын
Latency is ultimately limited by speed of light. The distances even within a small country are enough to become significant. Unless cloud gaming providers just put a server let's say within 300km of anyone I can't see it being comparable to playing on your local device.
@ggtomm15 ай бұрын
Amon, you're looking at it wrong. They can grow the game pass significantly even once user adoption is nearing maximum. Watch them introduce other services from the Microsoft cloud at a premium, such as AI, security controls, hosting, storage - These are all things Sony can't provide without partners, and the integration will never be as smooth or good as Microsoft. Why do you think Microsoft Teams destroyed Slack? It isn't a 1:1 comparison anymore.
@wompastompa36925 ай бұрын
>still no reason to own xbox past 360 >still no reason to own ps5 I hate modern gaming like you wouldn't believe. Even Nintendo hasn't released anything that interests me since like 2020. Also, I think the only thing holding back cloud gaming are the dogshit mono/duopoly ISP markets.
@wompastompa36925 ай бұрын
*modern CONSOLE gaming, I should clarify.
@enzopied30155 ай бұрын
I'd say ps4 was just as bad Skipped everything past 360/ps3 gen and missed barely anything
@yungk7775 ай бұрын
Sigh I’ll never forgive scalpers for not letting get a PS5 when I had the money to switch from Xbox to PlayStation, now I’m stuck with my Xbox because this economy so fucking bad, I wish I can find a deal on a PS5.
@nakhart5 ай бұрын
can't you just sell your xbox? then add a bit money and buy ps5?
@dragonninja36555 ай бұрын
GameStop. Sell your Xbox and you can get around $350 for it then buy the PS5. GameStop has a deal right now where if you spend at least 250, you get 25 off. So you'll be able to switch to a PS5 for about $100. Even less than that if you have actual physical games to trade or if you choose to buy a pre-owned PS5 instead of new. My friend did this. He switched from Xbox to PlayStation and only had to spend like $18 to do it because he had some games to trade as well.
@generalimlerith83565 ай бұрын
Sony and Microsoft trying to compete for worst company this year it’s a fun race lol
@seb27505 ай бұрын
Bringing a new meaning to Console Wars, Xbox vs PS.
@TheOLsnaps5 ай бұрын
Not even close to the same. Sony like stubbed a toe while Xbox found out it had cancer. The people mad at Sony aren’t even PlayStation owners they are pc players. Xbox owners are mad at Xbox probably thinking of jumping ship if it weren’t for their investment into Xbox already.
@PetrifyingPumpkins5 ай бұрын
Valve won that long ago when they killed game ownership on PC.
@jaybee88625 ай бұрын
@@PetrifyingPumpkins I prefer valve to either of the others
@PetrifyingPumpkins5 ай бұрын
@@jaybee8862 That's fine.
@cede-hf7vi5 ай бұрын
I buy my games because I am an adult.
@darthwoody99175 ай бұрын
If the rumors of Valve making a console version of the Steam Deck are true and they can market it at a reasonable price it could really shake up the console and OS market.
@jessegar945 ай бұрын
That would be interesting
@Guroji5 ай бұрын
Senua's first game was great. Didnt really need a second part
@THExJMC5 ай бұрын
Am I missing something? Why did he compare game pass numbers to ONLY PS+ Extra and Premium packages? Because 47M vs 33M didn't fit the narrative of Xbox game pass being more popular?
@WilliamOrmsby-e2b5 ай бұрын
He just doesn't want to be wrong, I made a comment about him being way off about gamepass when he said it was like 5x bigger about a week ago. It's really lame, I think he just feigned ignorance to save face even though it's easy as fuck to figure out
@RyanWilson-qy7kb5 ай бұрын
@@WilliamOrmsby-e2b He's just a guy who plays vidya, not an authority on the subject lol. You are too invested in another man
@MasckedUp5 ай бұрын
I enjoy gamepass but probably only because i download like 5 games, play 10 minuets each then get bored and delete. I cant stick with something for a long time even if i enjoy it
@thatwaver83095 ай бұрын
Your attention span is fried
@b0niK13375 ай бұрын
I love gamepass because as someone who likes to try a lot of games, its saved me a heaps of money if I were to buy it on steam instead. I don't own an xbox, only PC.
@tHeWasTeDYouTh5 ай бұрын
15:06 I just read a couple of weeks ago that Sony with the PS5 Slim is finally not losing money on the hardware. On the same article it says that MS is losing 200 dollars on every Series X sold. Not only that, back when the court leaked the MS emails that Phil Spencer made he talks about MS spending 1 billion dollars for the year the email was written, on paying for the losses in the hardware sector. Crazy
@offlineraided5 ай бұрын
If they added console Rust to game pass it would help alot but they wont do it even after 3 years
@ChezMclegend5 ай бұрын
I don’t think a few hundred people are gonna move that needle bud
@ZeallustImmortal5 ай бұрын
Whats a community of 50 gonna change?
@Zero_Steel5 ай бұрын
I dont really Think Rust is that game, let alone other survival games like Ark can move the Gamepass Subs Needle
@tawsibprotik27775 ай бұрын
Isn't Paul the same idiot who hated Stellar Blade design?
@senorakira86505 ай бұрын
Relevance?
@abcdefg32145 ай бұрын
Subscription services ruin the gaming experience.. There's no value in games with it
@JuneauGTW5 ай бұрын
I used to work for a local gas station company, but I worked in their casino branch. All their gas stations throughout the entire state made basically zero profit, but the casinos made a ton. However, they would never close the gas stations because those funnel people into the casinos. I believe this is a similar situation to the Game Pass/Windows situation.
@MrTuubster5 ай бұрын
I like Gamepass for now. I have 4 children and they all play games. For 1 subscription they can play a lot of games and I do not have to fork 70€ over per game/child every time something new comes out.
@austinrock76365 ай бұрын
Ah Paul tassi a fellow Destiny fan
@AnOldEnglishBloke5 ай бұрын
Isn't this guy the gaming editor for Forbes or something? And yeah, I recall some stuff with his name and Destiny from a long time ago. Don't remember exactly what it was all about now though.
@austinrock76365 ай бұрын
@@AnOldEnglishBloke he’s like a reviewer/writer for media, including some films, he’s most known for his insight on the games industry tho cause he’s pretty knowledgeable. I like listening to him hear about where things might go for gaming
@flutebasket42945 ай бұрын
We're watching Xbox commit self-deletion because their corporate culture has blinded them to obvious realities
@thelemetric5 ай бұрын
asmon console hate really clouds his perception.
@caddph5 ай бұрын
There currently isn't a great value proposition for Game Pass. Imagine if every "hot game" on twitch/youtube was available on a service (like all these smaller or indie games), and basically free to try, it'd be great. I just don't see what I'm getting (like Netflix has exclusives whereas i can just buy games on sale if i want to).
@Flip86x4 ай бұрын
I started rebuying my 360 games on eBay now before the Xbox 360 store closes and people flock to eBay for physical copies. The prices now are pretty good. I expect prices to get much higher in August.
@MoldyBubbles5 ай бұрын
Shameless console hater Asmongold thumbs up anti-game ownership GamePass and predicts the death of consoles. Valve's failed venture with Steam Machines didn't destroy PC gaming, Xbox leaving game consoles is not going to destroy console gaming either. Weirdo vendetta you got, like console owner stole your lunch money 20 years ago and Asmongold is a full time PC warrior adult.
@Pandemonium0885 ай бұрын
Gamepass through steam is an automatic life time subscription for me.
@mrmandiiiss9635 ай бұрын
I dont think subscription based gaming is bad at all game pass is pretty cheap tbh iv probably saved over £200 in games over yhe past few years instead of pauing full price
@bodybrest26445 ай бұрын
Jedi Survivor is like Elden Ring, but good. More varied and beautiful environments, actual characters, a believable setting, faster combat, no useless itemization, better leveling system. And a great story.
@spacejunk21865 ай бұрын
I don't know what Asmon is looking at but I don't see cloud gaming improving at all.