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As we’ve learned, the amount Microsoft spends each year to provide Xbox Game Pass is a very powerful number. As powerful as a billion a year to bring third-party games to the subscription service. Really, if you watch it for 12 months
Bloomberg reported that 1 billion would be the total, but that within this money, millions of dollars are being advanced for developers to prepare their games for the service and launch them. So you can get an idea of the work and money that goes into a system, to keep it running and to keep us having new games available on Xbox Game Pass.
1 billion per year for Xbox Game Pass games
Microsoft is now spending $1 billion a year to get third-party games onto the subscription service. Microsoft is offering a “multi-million dollar flat fee up front” to add titles from smaller publishers to Game Pass.
For them, they have protected themselves from any negative risk. The game is going to be finished. So they have all the advantages of retail, we have the opportunity of the day and date. It would be a lump sum payment for a developer.
Before the end of the year, we have other releases confirmed for Xbox Game Pass, one for example that will arrive in November and that was pampered by Microsoft was Stalker 2. This game is a temporary Xbox exclusive, which also arrives on launch day on Xbox Game Pass.
