Microsoft Will Absolutely Make Money On Starfield, Phil Spencer Says

Since when did people start caring about the viability of other companies’ business models lol? As a consumer, my goal has always been to get the most that I can for as little as I can and that’s what they want for themselves too. Some of the comments almost seem like they’re Microsoft employees hoping their work doesn’t lose money haha. If it’s not your workplace, who cares if they lose a bunch of money or make a bunch of money as long as you get the product you want? Lol

Even though I have Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and even though I still think 30FPS on XseX is an L after watching the Direct I’m sold!

As with Zelda TOTK it only takes a half hour or so for me to forget I’m playing at 30FPS. Would I rather it’s 60 of course but the sheer scale of this game is astounding and I CAN NOT WAIT!

My life is going to be consumed with this game.

Tempted to just buy it. I like gamepass to try games I likely wouldn't otherwise, and I've got enough codes that I'll have it till 2025 BUT one thing that does bug me with it though since I've moved to PC gaming, is not being able to open games with geforce experience!! If anyone has a workaround for this that doesn't involve editing permissions to the folder and getting blocked that'd be great.

No it won’t. Simple math question: does a game that sells 10 millions at $70 make more money or dose 10 million subscribe that pay $10 a month make more money? Keep in mind most people subscribe for a month or 2 and few just keep it. If more people are like me and subscribe for a month and keep bouncing from subscription to subscription instead of paying for 10 different subscription at once. MS is bleeding money on Gamepass.

The shear growth in gamepass subs just for starfield will be insane, it's absolutely gonna be the biggest game of the year. It's gonna smash sales records on steam I guarantee that

Yes please, I need an SP game to be succesful and drive the message "Single Player games are profitable."

Imo Starfield is a reason tons of ppl will subscribe to GP or renew it.
Can i call it a GP seller? ;-)
I watched the deep dive today again with some commentary... dont even remember the last time i was so excited about a game.

If they make enough money to satisfy them then cool, but I'm guessing it will pale in comparison to what Nintendo makes with TOTK, and what Sony will make with Spider-Man 2, as they are exclusively $70 a pop. MS doesn't really NEED the money though I guess lol.

Skyrim had very long legs, in term of sales.

Assuming they can do even half of that with Starfield, they will be fine.

Well duh.

Yea, they'll make $500🤭

If this was coming out on all platforms and wasn't available on GP, they'd be printing money. Instead, the profit will be pathetic, and all it'll do is inflate GP subs for a few months so they can brag about their 2397854324789523894 subscribers.

Interesting that he used the word 'absolutely' and followed it up with 'touch wood'. So he used a word that means it's a certainty and immediately followed it up with a phrase that would mean you were hoping for something to come true if you're lucky.

Consider like 10 million users paying $15 each month for Game Pass. That's a conservative baseline. Also consider additional revenues from attach rate, DLCs, consumables and additional purchases, users buying other games not on Game Pass -- because they will be kept in the ecosystem... Not counting additional attaches for Azure or M365 because it's even less straightforward, but it's there. Or hardware, like controllers.

That's easily hundreds of millions of revenue a month, extremely conservatively, all because of Game Pass. A month. So Microsoft can go to whoever and pay a few dozen millions for a deal and be unfazed and turn a giant profit still. People will buy Starfield. They'll subscribe to Game Pass, and even if only for a few months, they'll recoup the costs of development and marketing quite fast. And Starfield's going to have a very long tail.

I love how people with brains somehow can't figure this out. It's a business model. This is why engagement matters. And it works very well for them. And for me as well. Win-win-win.