Bethesda bliver, når handlen mellem Microsoft og ZeniMax efter planen går igennem i det nye år, en del af Xbox Game Studious. Dermed kommer deres spil fra første dag til at blive tilgængelige gennem Xbox Game Pass, og det gælder også for studierne id Software og Arkane.
I et interview med gamesindusty.biz fortæller Todd Howard fra Bethesda, at abonnementsordninger som Xbox Game Pass, kan en give bedre chancer til kritisk populære spil, der har haft svært med at nå salgsmålene i detail handlen.
"Game Pass and things like it allow titles to be successful where the economics of the business, and having to sell things at retail to sell X amount of copies... That works against some games. Just like in other avenues -- let's take television or movies. Certain types of comedies or big budget dramas went away. TV went to the cheapest thing they could make for a long time, reality television, which I could equate to a free-to-play match-three game. What brings eyeballs? What's cheap? Right, let's get it out."
"Subscriptions came along and now you see the quality and investment in dramas or historical fiction series. That's where creators are able to go and create these things people want and it makes sense for everybody: the people paying the bills, the people creating it and the people consuming it. That's what we see happening with games with things like Game Pass."
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