There’s been an interesting movement with Xbox recently. Players have been mainly pleased with the introduction of the Xbox Game Pass. For a subscription fee, you’ll gain access to countless video game titles right away. Some of these are offered through cloud-based support, while players can download other video game titles to enjoy. It’s a great way to experience several games without having to purchase these games individually. However, if you were hopeful that some of Take-Two big hitters would launch on the Xbox Game Pass service, you’re in for some disappointment.
Recently, Take-Two had a quarterly report. During this report, we were given some sales figures and opinions from the CEO, Strauss Zelnick. One of which was the fact that the CEO is in favor of delaying a game when needed. However, one area that the CEO is not in favor of is subscription service launches. Of course, Microsoft’s not the only one offering a subscription service, but the CEO was asked about the idea of frontline titles coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch.
That’s when Strauss Zelnick spoke up about how he couldn’t make sense of a subscription service launch. This doesn’t make sense to Zelnick from a business standpoint. Likewise, using the subscription service to launch games is something that he has avoided for a while now. Unfortunately, that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. So those big title hits you’re looking forward to playing from Take-Two will likely not find their way on Xbox Game Pass or any competitive subscription service at launch.
Instead, we can likely expect an appearance of the game for a long time, long after it’s been readily available for players to purchase. We’re sure that plenty of fans expected this, as it doesn’t appear Take-Two will struggle with some of their big frontline titles. But those who might have hoped some of those anticipated releases will debut on a subscription service will likely want to start expecting to pick up the video game title separately.
With that said, it’s known that game consoles are typically sold at cost or even a slight loss. So instead, companies like Microsoft rely on software and accessory purchases to deal with the console loss. Microsoft, meanwhile, has continued to push Xbox Game Pass with new games and promises that their big exclusives will also launch on Xbox Game Pass. Perhaps it’s a service to tack on despite not having Take-Two titles at launch?
