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[โ€“] Carnelian@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually remember seeing some numbers on this a while ago and I was pretty shocked at how few games the average person buys. Like median ps3 owner bought 7 games over the life of the entire console.

From looking around google quickly it looks like the average for ps4/5 is 6-10 depending on region.

So if someone stays subscribed to the service for the life of the console then Microsoft comes out way ahead compared to just selling games, I would guess

[โ€“] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's possible that the group who would buy gamepass arent the norm and they'd normally buy 10+ games. But even then, they'd have to be buying 10+ games a year within the gamepass library to be canabilizing sales.

Either way, they picked a really bad time given the state of the world to be raising prices by 50%.