Destiny 2 and all its expansions, even Beyond Light, heading to Xbox Game Pass is a significant moment.
This feels like the future. It’s not just Microsoft offering its own games at launch on Game Pass, but they’ve made it appealing enough to lure Bungie in as well, no doubt offering them a decent pile of cash to do so, but it should be a win-win for both parties.
We can already see this starting to happen elsewhere. One thing we learned yesterday is that Halo Infinite will exist as a “platform” and will be the main Halo game for the indefinite future with more and more added to it in time. And all of that will continue to be on Game Pass, obviously.
It’s hard to know exactly what the next franchise to go this route will be, but I would not be surprised to see maybe Call of Duty turn into a “platform” where its new releases are part of an ongoing stream of content, rather than hard resets every single year. Some games have been doing this already. Fortnite already exists as a platform and being free with no paid expansions, doesn’t need to be a part of a Game Pass at all. Other games haveset this trend in motion a long time ago.
Yes, $60 games and numbered sequels will still exist. And yet I would not be surprised to see less of those and more of what Destiny is doing. Godfall, Avengers are new loot-based IPs that seem like they may follow this trend, even if they’re not showing up on Game Pass at launch. But 2-3 years from now? Maybe debuting your new title on Game Pass will not be so weird to consider. This is the direction everything is moving.
Sony and Nintendo can likely hold out for a while here. I do think Game Pass is a force to be reckoned with, more so than the actual Xbox Series X, certainly, but Sony and Nintendo keep pumping out first party hits that more or lesspurchase, which is why even with this trend becoming clear, we see The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima breaking records to this day.
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