• Skies5394@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Xbox’s subscription service didn’t stop Bethesda’s RPG from dominating sales charts last month

    The myth being that game pass nukes sales.

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      9 months ago

      Does that not suggest that Xbox game pass is not very successful?

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        9 months ago

        The suggestion they’d like you to take is that Game Pass spreads enough word of mouth to help or otherwise not harm sales.

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            9 months ago

            Eh, not really. Game Pass does have a lot of value in it; it’s not the way I want to engage with games, but it makes sense for both Microsoft and customers. It’s just not the proof that this headline posits it to be when you use a game guaranteed to sell millions of copies.