Microsoft’s Xbox One Game Pass move promises to have dramatic implications for the future of Xbox, if nothing else- will unit game sales become a thing of the past on the platform, as everyone simply subscribes to play a continuous catalog of games? Will retailers take this lying down?
Questions about the viability of Game Pass in the long term continue to persist, and some of them were answered by Aaron Greenberg on Twitter. Greenberg confirmed, for example, that unlike some games that are added to the service for a temporary period of time before being rotated out, Microsoft’s first party games will be permanent fixtures on the service. Not just that- the Game Pass discount for players who want to actually purchase the games they play will also apply to these first party games.
Elsewhere, Greenberg reiterated that Crackdown 3 is still coming (and that it conspicuous lack of marketing doesn’t mean anything sinister). Hopefully, the game will be better than it has looked in all of its showings so far when it does come.
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