Xbox Game Pass was pitched as the future. Now it’s in full retreat
Xbox Game Pass started out feeling like a frivolous boondoggle aimed at distracting from the Xbox One ’s lack of hit exclusives. Then, it became the best deal in gaming thanks to a steady expansion of the Netflix -like subscription library with major third-party releases and critically acclaimed indies. Now it’s bigger than ever and getting worse all the time. Once pitched as the promised land for Xbox players, it’s now becoming another dead end.
It’s one of the games Microsoft spent $69 billion to buy Activision Blizzard for, an acquisition whose main legacy so far appears to be mass layoffs and fewer exclusives. Playing Diablo IV’s comeback season on Game Pass has been nice, but it wasn’t worth Tango Gameworks closing, a decision seemingly precipitated in part by newfound scrutiny on Xbox’s bottomline following the close of the historic merger. When Game Pass launched in 2017, the fate of the Xbox One was sealed.
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