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Xbox Game Pass and Co: Shawn Layden doubts about the sustainability of subscription services

In a current interview, Shawn Layden, the former CEO of the PlayStation division, left various topics. For example, he went to the current acquisitions of Microsoft and Sony Interactive Entertainment and described them as a negative development for the industry, under which the variety could suffer shortly or long. Similarly skeptically Layden is facing subscription services such as the Xbox Game Pass . Here, Layden doubts, above all, due to rising development costs on the sustainability of appropriate services, which in his opinion would have to achieve almost highly new numbers to be profitable in the long run. Provider must first accept losses "It is very difficult to start a $ 120 million-dollar game through a subscription service that costs $ 9.99 per month. You must have 500 million subscribers before they start paying their investment. Therefore, they must now take a loss-bearing position to try to enlarge this base. But still if they have only 250 million consoles, the...