“If I look at the top games that people are playing on Xbox One today, many of those games are three or four years old,” Spencer said during an interview with Giant Bomb in 2017. And that aging incentive structure, where people vote which games they want with their gaming time and dollars, is something that Xbox boss Phil Spencer has lamented in the past. Service games have changed the value perceptionīut Game Pass changes the incentive structure for Microsoft. The idea is to attract subscribers and then to keep them around with a lot of content and frequent new additions. It also includes all of Xbox Game Studios releases with no release delay. With Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft gives subscribers a roster of more than 100 games - just like Netflix. So why is it back now? Because of Game Pass.
That has pushed out games like Microsoft Flight Simulator.
The time and money that goes toward a mid-tier game with a small-but-dedicated audience is time and money that could go toward the next Call of Duty or League of Legends.
