TweakTown

Is Game Pass hurting Xbox Studios? Profit debate heats up after major job cuts

TL;DR: Xbox Game Pass remains profitable according to internal sources, despite concerns over first-party game development costs and lost sales revenue. While Game Pass excludes these costs from its ...
Eurogamer

Arkane Studios founder calls Game Pass "unsustainable model", and one which is "damaging the industry"

Game Pass - Microsoft's subscription service across Xbox and PC that offers members a catalogue of games and other perks - is "unsustainable" and "damaging" the industry. That's according to Arkane ...
IGN

"Is it healthy?"

Shawn Layden, former chairman of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has blasted gaming subscription services such as Xbox Game Pass as bad for the video games industry and developers — who, he said, can ...
GameSpot

Dev Who Launched Game Into Game Pass Warns Against Launching Games Into Game Pass

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Developer Raccoon Logic worked with Microsoft to bring Revenge of the Savage Planet to Xbox Game Pass as a day-one launch title, but studio head Alex ...
IGN

Arkane Studios Founder Takes Shots at Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass - IGN Daily Fix

On today's Daily Fix, the founder of Akane Studios, creators of Dishonored and Prey, and the now President at Weird West developer, WolfEye Studio called Xbox Game Pass unsustainable in a thread of ...