Why Xbox Game Pass is going up in price? Analyst explains why gamers are worried

Microsoft will increase the price of Xbox Game Pass subscriptions and make important changes to its plans. With this, the company seeks to continue offering a great service and an attractive catalog of titles to all its players on consoles and PC.

The community speculates that this movement is directly linked to the purchase of Activision Blizzardin which Microsoft invested billions of dollars. However, it seems that the reason behind this decision also has to do with a problem that Microsoft has been trying to solve for years.

Recently, Daniel Ahmadone of the most reputable analysts in the industry, gave his opinion on the subject and explained why Microsoft decided to increase the price of Xbox Game Pass right now.

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Xbox Game Pass to increase in price due to lack of growth, analyst says

Xbox Game Pass is undoubtedly one of the best deals for enjoying video games today. Despite this, we know that the platform has not met all of Microsoft’s expectations, especially in terms of growth in recent years.

Not in vain has the company done everything possible to take the service beyond its consoles with PC Game Pass and Xbox Cloud GamingOn the other hand, we know that Microsoft is betting everything on its service, as it could even abandon the industry if Xbox Game Pass does not grow enough by 2027.

That said, Ahmad says the price increase is due precisely to the lack of growth outside of consolesFrom his perspective, the change in plans will help the service’s popularity increase on PC and mobile devices.

“One factor driving this move is that Game Pass isn’t seeing strong growth beyond the current installed base on Xbox consoles. So the goal for current console players is to incentivize an upgrade to the higher-priced Ultimate tier with day-one releases, cloud gaming, etc.

“PC and mobile gamers haven’t bought into Game Pass at the rate Microsoft had hoped, and this group is where user growth should come from, so the Game Pass for PC tier will still have day 1 games,” the analyst said.

Some fans are concerned by this analysis, fearing that the service will not grow enough after the addition of Activision Blizzard games to its catalog and this will cause another short-term price increase or even problems for the brand.

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