Xbox Game Pass Not 'Value Destructive' Like PlayStation Claims, Football Manager Boss Says
The studio head of Football Manager developer Sports Interactive has said PlayStation's claim that Xbox Game Pass is "value destructive" is not true.
The United States' Federal Trade Commission spent the last week battling Microsoft in court over Xbox's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, during which PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said publishers do not like Game Pass.
Sports Interactive head Miles Jacobson refuted this to Eurogamer, however, saying Game Pass has been a positive experience for Football Manager.
"Every studio is going to have different opinions on this," Jacobson said. "Different studios will have different data, because different games work well in different situations. For us, it's nothing but positive on all three platforms.
"The simple fact is Game Pass and Apple Arcade have brought new people to the franchise that never played it before. I'm confident enough in our games to believe we will now have those consumers for a long time, whatever platforms we're on. Fiscally, it makes sense. Creatively, it makes sense."
Ryan claimed he'd "talked to all the publishers, and they unanimously do not like Game Pass because it is value destructive", insisting Game Pass is losing Xbox a lot of money.
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer, meanwhile, has been transparent about Game Pass' profitability and sustainability. In an interview with Axios last year, Spencer explained how the service was not burning cash and called it "very, very sustainable".At the same time, however, in the UK Competition and Markets Authority's provisional report, Microsoft admitted its video game subscription service led to a marked decline in base sales.
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