He even said in the interview that he and Phil had talked a lot about GamePass.
Of course. I'm not like all you warriors here waving my MS or SONY flag. I own all the consoles. I don't give 2 shits who buys what. I do get enjoyment out of all the idiots here watching them make fools out of themselves. The hypocrisy here is incredible. So yes, MS please buy Take 2 so i can watch 25 pages of meltdown.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't on purpose. I'm also 80 maybe 90% sure Zelnick is a human and we humans tend to often speak faster than we think.
And all he probably speaks about with Phil is the real number, not the publicly announced number from almost a year ago. Probably just a slip up on his part.
Wouldn't they have to basically disclose this during negotiations for virtually any game on the service? I'd think that almost every company on Gamepass has a good idea of how many people they may reach.
Maybe, just maybe because they put GTA and RDR on the service and want to know how many people get access to their games via Gamepass. Just a thought.
How much do you suppose some great or terrible Gamepass subscriber numbers are going to move MS stock up or down?
I just can't imagine any company, let alone take two would put their game on a subscription and not know how many people are gonna have access to it. MS kinda has to share it. It's a mutual deal, and both sides need to know.
Of course it would be great amount of subscribers, but that wasn't the point.
Always? Just look at some in here (and I realize this is a small sample size but still...) and witness how many in here will wait for games to come to Gamepass. I'm telling you that people who do that will only make sub services in gaming the ONLY way forward. Devs and publishers will see this trend and act on it.
He also just kind of threw it out there in a somewhat flippant way, he then went on to say why he doesn't think new releases should be on GP.
His guard could have been down by virtue of the format. In talking about the merits of subscription it might have felt almost natural or even expected to quantify his view point. And I can't envision he is exactly worried about MS getting mad enough to treat them like Epic is being treated by Apple over a slip of the tongue. Take Two could possibly, if it chose to, declare a hardware sale's winner with a single timed exclusivity contract.
Considering he was under the assumption of 30 million subs and was still anti-day 1, this was a big dig imo. He also had a bit to say on the differences between video streams and interactive game consumption. I think his belief on numbers and continued aversion warrant plenty of discussion. But I'm not sure they really relate to a platform holder because even a pub of that size won't get the benefit of a royalty from everything sold on a platform.
This is a good question. My short answer would be...kinda?
I swear. It's so easy and has little to no consequences. He does it because it's that easy.This supposed "guy at work" works, but is apparently so strapped for cash he can't swing $10 or $15 per month?
6 different accounts you say. These stories are becoming more and more outlandish by the day. I'm totally sure there are about 5-12 million people with that much time to waste for something so cheap. The numbers keep growing. Only so long people can keep riding the "it's only $1" claim.
So he doesn’t know the number in tweets, but knows the number enough to write an article about it?
I remember you saying 80m - 100m in two or three years so I would definitely have been one of those laughing.
I'd imagine Halo will be more than $200m certainly by the time Forge and co-op come out, with a development team north of 700 people, and work contracted out to The Coalition and numerous third-party studios.
That's what I'm gonna do for October, November.
According to Jeff Grubb in his latest podcast at Giant Bomb (21 mins). Not only is 30 millions wrong but the 23 millions in April was also wrong. The actual number was about 21 millions at E3 (June). That's why MS never announced offical numbers.
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Ugh I hate this "we need more transparency around sales numbers and subscription numbers" rubbish. No, we don't. You shouldn't care *at all*.
Will it? Halo Infinite's MP is free to play, don't need game pass. Halo is more a MP leaning game than SP.
Age of Empires is PC only
When it comes to non xbox info I agree but he's an xbox shill, he wouldn't make anything up to make them look bad. MS would announce a milestone like this as soon as it happened I'm sure.
Didn’t you say Grubb was a fake insider when he announced the Kojima / MS partnership? And now he’s gospel because he said something you like?According to Jeff Grubb in his latest podcast at Giant Bomb (21 mins). Not only is 30 millions wrong but the 23 millions in April was also wrong. The actual number was about 21 millions at E3 (June). That's why MS never announced offical numbers.
If anyone wants to make a thread about this new development.
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So quiet here after all the celebration...
I may be in the minority but for me I enjoyed co op Halo SP as much as multiplayer. Having played thousands of hours of Halo since 2001. I assumed alot of people were like me. There are people upset that co op sp won't be there at launch.
Did he really announce a partnership, wasn’t there just a letter of intent i.e practically meaningless?
The topic he posted in said « contract » but that’s irrelevant, if you call Grubb a fake insider and Xbox shill (which I think he is) then have enough self respect to not use him as source of truth when he says something you like.
