Responding to raising the price of games is the last nail in the Xbox coffin

Man, it seems that Xbox is on ropes this year. Whether it is another price increase on five -year Xbox or extremely high required prices of the upcoming Xbox Xbox Ally X pocket computer, I was convinced that the company was slowly removing the hardware market completely. But now I'm sure I'm more than ever sure. The price increase on Game Pass is the last thing that Xbox should do to make people interested in its console.

Xbox raises the gaming price of 50 percent, with Ultimate now costs $ 30 per month. Now you will get some accessories such as Fortnite Crew and choose Ubisoft Library, offering, including more than 400 games playable on Xbox, PC and Cloud Gaming.

The end is close to

Despite these additions, players were naturally upset. Xbox, however, certainly did not expect to be so angry. Users canceled their membership in such a big flock that Game Pass has still collapsed. This is undoubtedly, the end Xbox should expect after raising prices to Game Pass in recent years more than once without the offer to significantly improve.

In fact, this new rebranding actually worsens one former port. The Xbox Rewards system, which historically allows users to pay for their subscriptions with points earned and the Xbox tasks, has now changed to make it even harder and more expensive. Instead of exchanging points for playing in Pass Ultimate Membership, users now have to replace them for gift cards, which they can then use to buy a game pass.

Now the user has to spend 28,500 points on a gift card that can afford Ultimate – more than 2 rise compared to the 12,000 points that previously captured. Even an io 50 % increase in the price of the service seems to be a particularly offensive way to push out more dollars from your users.

It seems that Xbox has reduced the DLC Discount Game Pass Discount Game subscriber and removed one more thing that makes the service worthwhile.

Not only do these changes cause the game to go through less useful – if you are not me and save two grandmothers per month because I will not have to also Buy Fortnite Crew – but they make xbox less useful.

We will see that Game Pass was one of the last reasons to have the Xbox X series. Not only is the list of exclusive consoles, not so exciting, but also slowly devoted to PlayStation 5.

The death of Xbox as consoles would be a good thing

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If the plan is No To eliminate Xbox hardware, Microsoft doesn't do a great job to be convinced. Rising prices for old hardware, introducing new and more expensive hardware, which is just a portable version of the old hardware, and then charging more for games sounds like ways to exclude your company from business.

Although this will not happen here – it is difficult to imagine a world where Microsoft and Xbox names are not ubiquitous – there are major changes that are likely to form the future of Xbox as a brand and its place in the game scene.

It looks like Xbox will move like a game powerhouse rather than a console. Former exclusive platforms are moving to other consoles, a long list of popular game studies has been obtained, and while rumors abound on PlayStation 6, Xbox releases another view of the hardware that dates back to the day. What else do we think?

It all said, it's not a bad idea. The console wars were slightly more than marketing technology. Sony has a Microsoft, where consoles are concerned, in every generation. The nearest race between these two, Pitting PS3 against Xbox 360, saw that Sony sold 87 million consoles compared to 84 million Microsoft.

In the current generation, PS5 sold more than 78 million units, while Xbox Series X | S is at more than 33 million. Meanwhile, the recent message shows that Xbox games are dominated by the Store Sony PlayStation Store. I don't know how someone from Xbox can look at this character and consider the X series | With for nothing but failure.

But it may not be. Finally, Xbox is part of Microsoft. Microsoft is the largest software company on the planet. Xbox focusing on software (games) unlike hardware (consoles) would be more in line with the company's parent and could also be a complete brand rejuvenation.

Instead of thinking about what you could call another Xbox, put people into work to throw people away with the games released by Xbox Game Studios. Xbox has some of the largest IPs and studies of all time under his watch – Call of Duty, Fallout, Halo, Gears of War, Forza, The Elder Scrolls and Minecraft to name at least some – and are responsible to do it directly.

With the Xbox consoles, Microsoft itself said that hardware has always been sold to the company with a loss, while zero profit from Xbox consoles back to launch. Why constantly invest in a product that you will never have a return, when you could do games for other consoles, PC and cloud games instead without having to explore and develop new hardware technology?

And if the sale of games of the future of your company, a subscription that allows you to play hundreds of games for one low price every month, it does not seem to be the best way to do it. I have no doubt that Game Pass will continue to change, add new offers that Xbox does not own – like Fortnite Crew and Select EA and Ubisoft – and the price will continue to rise. We saw this game with virtually every existing streaming service. And occasional fans who could buy Xbox and want to try a new title will continue to give up the service and potentially their consoles.

So yes, the increase in gaming prices is shit. If his offers work for you, it's fantastic. But what once looked like a way to convince occasional players to try new things and spend more time on their consoles, now feels like something that is exclusively for hardcore players who also play Fortnite.

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