>no platform-exclusive titles
>makes their catalog of games available for basically no money
>being ultra pro-consumer on the side of gamers for nearly a decade
>gamers reward this effort by proving that it absolutely does not work and gamers actually want to be fleeced
Enjoy your $80 bing bing wahoos, because that's the business model that works

>being ultra pro-consumer on the side of gamers for nearly a decade
Too obvious. Be more subtle next time.

>>714333546
Not encouraging platform exclusivity and the Game Pass are pro-consumer moves, retard.

>buy a bunch of studios for obscene amouunts of money and let them coast for 7-10 years without releasing anything
why does aaa keep doing this???

>>714333361 (OP)
Switch won

M$ are impressive in the worst ways.

>>714333361 (OP)
For pirates and poor people

>>714333361 (OP)
Xbox still requires a subscription to play games online. That's not pro-consumer.

>>714333546
For all the argument about predatory practices towards consumers its existence means the other extreme exists as well. But you're too dumb to undertand simple concepts like balance.

There's a way to make stuff like GP good for both but they apparently conceived it in a way that doesn't benefits them at all. Yes, this is a bad thing because it makes it unsustainable and puts and expiration date

The solution to all of M$'s money problems