{"id":301490,"date":"2025-10-14T16:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2160652"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:39:57","slug":"sony-just-did-a-better-job-of-convincing-me-xbox-game-pass-is-viable-than-microsoft-has-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sony-just-did-a-better-job-of-convincing-me-xbox-game-pass-is-viable-than-microsoft-has-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony just did a better job of convincing me Xbox Game Pass is viable than Microsoft has so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sony-just-did-a-better-job-of-convincing-me-xbox-game-pass-is-viable-than-microsoft-has-so-far.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMicrosoft has run up against questions about Xbox Game Pass&#8217; financial viability ever since it launched the subscription service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-17-is-xbox-game-pass-too-good-to-be-true\">Is Xbox Game Pass too good to be true?<\/a> That&#8217;s the question Eurogamer&#8217;s Chris Tapsell asked in a recent feature, speaking to developers and Microsoft executives to try to find out the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the insistence from Microsoft that Xbox Game Pass makes sense for the bean counters in Redmond, I&#8217;ve had my doubts. How can something so good value, something that offers all Microsoft&#8217;s first-party games and an increasing number of third-party games day-and-date, make financial sense? When you consider you can get in on Xbox Game Pass for a quid, it really does seem too good to be true. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-10-epic-is-burning-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-on-epic-games-store-exclusives-in-its-war-against-steam\">Epic with the Epic Games Store<\/a>, I assumed Microsoft was burning through millions of dollars trying to get Xbox Game Pass off the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-07-28-sony-just-did-a-better-job-of-convincing-me-xbox-game-pass-is-viable-than-microsoft-has-so-far\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-07-28-sony-just-did-a-better-job-of-convincing-me-xbox-game-pass-is-viable-than-microsoft-has-so-far\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has run up against questions about Xbox Game Pass&#8217; financial viability ever since it launched the subscription service. Is Xbox Game Pass too good to be true? That&#8217;s the question Eurogamer&#8217;s Chris Tapsell asked in a recent feature, speaking to developers and Microsoft executives to try to find out the answer. Despite all the insistence from Microsoft that Xbox Game Pass makes sense for the bean counters in Redmond, I&#8217;ve had my doubts. How can something so good value, something that offers all Microsoft&#8217;s first-party games and an increasing number of third-party games day-and-date, make financial sense? When you consider you can get in on Xbox Game Pass for a quid, it really does seem too good to be true. Like Epic with the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sony-just-did-a-better-job-of-convincing-me-xbox-game-pass-is-viable-than-microsoft-has-so-far\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sony just did a better job of convincing me Xbox Game Pass is viable than Microsoft has so far | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Microsoft has run up against questions about Xbox Game Pass&#039; financial viability ever since it launched 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