JhonWeak56 t1_iuhs3fh wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:08 PM

I think it’s a generational thing that will eventually fade out, most gamers nowadays are still people who used to buy games physically, but the new generation is much more leaning towards digital version, gamepass will continue to growth as it’s the biggest advantage for gamers that xbox has over Sony, eventually it will become very big, i don’t know if it will ever represent 100% of the sales but I’m convinced that it will definitely become bigger than physical sales over the course of the next decade. Because unlike Netflix, games last much longer than tv show or film, you can replay some games literally 100s of time and spend 1000s of hours on it, but i don’t know a lot of people who have watched Titanic a 100 times, game production is also cheaper in some sense, because a lot of the gamepass catalog is made of indie game that brings a lot of value for not a whole lot of money.

gothpunkboy89 t1_iuhvmp4 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:37 PM

Games don't sit around for you to play hundreds of hours in gamepass.

JhonWeak56 t1_iuhytvb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:01 PM

What do you mean ?

gothpunkboy89 t1_iui1n6w wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:22 PM

3rd party games rotate out all the time.

JhonWeak56 t1_iui20xb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:25 PM

Surely but you usually have plenty of time to complete them, and most of the big titles owned by Microsoft stay forever. So my point is stil relevant for the average joe there’s a good value in game pass with probably more game than he needs hence explaining why as the generational shift slowly occurs and the gamepass develop probably less and less people will find buying physical copy of a game a sensible thing to do

gothpunkboy89 t1_iui2j2s wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:28 PM

>Surely but you usually have plenty of time to complete them,

Probably. But not the continual replay 100 times as you claimed.

its_muh_username OP t1_iui87db wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:08 PM

It depends when you sign up and a game is set to be removed from the platform. When I signed up to Games Pass to play Fallout 4 it was removed from the service about 3 days later so I couldn't complete it. I bought a physical copy in the end.

JhonWeak56 t1_iuiik5n wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:18 PM

Obviously there’s some edge cases, but overall most people are very satisfied by this model no matter if it’s from xbox or playstation people will buy it.