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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 29:23 Mitch Lasky I agree with you, and I think that, um, Game Pass from Microsoft is an interesting harbinger of maybe the end of the road for the platform based publisher, or at least the end of this road for the platform based publisher, because
- ▶ 29:44 Mitch Lasky He's now, Phil with Game Pass, aggregating supply again.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:07:56 Ben Gilbert If you look at what Microsoft's done with Game Pass, which is brilliant, they're making it sort of financially irresponsible to buy one of their devices outright.
- ▶ 2:08:07 David Rosenthal It's financially irresponsible as a gamer not to subscribe to game pass.
- ▶ 2:08:22 David Rosenthal Game pass itself is 15 bucks a month.
- ▶ 2:08:34 Ben Gilbert And so when you look at it, Microsoft is now up to eighteen million subscribers to Game Pass, which to your point, I think there's like a cheap version at 10 and then a more expensive version at 15.
- ▶ 2:08:44 Ben Gilbert So every year as an annuity is generating two to three billion dollars on Game Pass.
- ▶ 2:09:12 David Rosenthal I am not one of those gamers, and I think there are a lot of gamers out there like me that in an ordinary year I would maybe buy a couple games, but it's a no-brainer for me to subscribe to Game Pass for 15 bucks a month.
- ▶ 2:11:18 Ben Gilbert It's project Spartacus, by the way, is the rumored game pass alternative, which is kind of a mess because they already have the PlayStation network and then they have PlayStation.
- ▶ 2:13:40 David Rosenthal Oh, yeah, but I think like we were just talking about with, um, Game Pass, I think Microsoft has, uh, finally abandoned that computer in your living room vision for Xbox and realized like, no, no, no, this is a good business.
- ▶ 2:33:21 Ben Gilbert My bear is that Microsoft's right in their strategy with Game Pass, and gaming will move to the Netflix of video games style thing, and that it's not about having the most beastly console and keeping the business model the same.
- ▶ 2:42:38 David Rosenthal And it's interesting though, like with game pass and if the, if the industry moves much more to subscription dynamics, I do think a lot of this power goes away.