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Game Pass Price Increase Is Inevitable, Says Spencer; Unannounced Japanese Games Are in the Works

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said a Game Pass price increase in the future is inevitable. He also confirmed that some unannounced Japanese games are in the works.

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Jin_Sakai247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

And if Game Pass becomes the norm and you’re locked into that ecosystem you have no choice but to pay the asking price.

Aloymetal247d ago

This whole thing reminds me of Interstellar...
Xbox fans: Gamepass price increase is not possible!
Phil: No, it's necessary...

VenomUK247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

Why are people crying about a more than reasonable price increase? I wish it was increased more so we can be given MORE value. Just wait until Microsoft owns Activision, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sega and Capcom and has all their games free on Game Pass then you will be singing a different tune. Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda on Game Pass with Xbox Achievements and Luigi pink OPI nail polish controller? Yes Please! -This future is 'inevitable.'

Mr_cheese247d ago

Hahaha Venom, what a prat 🤣

IceKoldKilla247d ago

@VenomUK

I've seen you around here ever since I came back to this site after maybe half a decade. But I had to login at work just to reply to you. I have to say, you are absolutely hilarious and most people here CLEARLY don't see your sarcasm. I don't blame them necessarily as many people on here are obviously quite young, gullible and sometimes, just plain dumb and ignorant. But you sir, you know how to do sarcasm well and I find it even better that you get so many dislikes.

The problem is it doesn't come across as sarcasm to fanboys as all they do on here is argue about which billion dollar corporation they support despite these corporations never caring about them. They'll eventually understand one day. If not then wow, good luck in life. Some people on here have nothing else going on for them in their lives and take these comments and articles too seriously.

VenomUK246d ago

@IceKoldKilla You mean to say you logged on just for me? I hope it was worth it! 👊🏼

Like you say, age is a factor in not interpreting meaning, as is knee jerk reactions to anything format wars related, and I also suspect geographical location.

But the Xbox FTC trial leaks have got me thinking; how great would it be if the upcoming Perfect Dark game when played opens with the Nintendo, Rare and Game Pass logos on it? It would be like Microsoft handing back the stewardship of Rare so that Nintendo could make it make Rare Great Again.

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Alexious247d ago

I doubt it'll ever become dominant.

Aloymetal247d ago

Of course it won't. Some fanatics keep forgetting that this service is already 7 yrs old and it hasn't changed anything for the xbox brand.

S2Killinit246d ago

Is this yet another gamepass price hike so soon after the other one we had? That was like only 2 months ago.

MrDead247d ago

It's almost as if thats the plan. Buy up the industry, make it to expensive to compete, make the cost of entry into the industry too high for anyone new, then charge what you want. This is what happens with consolidation, it's happened to your food, internet providers, airlines, energy companies, fuel, cars, phone networks, etc... but consolidation is great for price gouging, above inflation price rises and profits and payouts.

ravens52247d ago

But atleast we have all Activision/Blizzard games on gamepass. GAMEPASS. GAMEPASS....GAMEPASS!
~Some Xbox player~

Popsicle247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

This is an excellent post Mr Dead!

CantThinkOfAUsername247d ago

That's exactly what Nvidia did with GPUs. Even AMD can't keep up.

il-JumperMT247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

that is their end game buy up everything and make video games dependent on game pass to play any major release

Obscure_Observer247d ago

"And if Game Pass becomes the norm and you’re locked into that ecosystem you have no choice but to pay the asking price."

Sony already charges you way more for an inferior PS Plus, and we don´t hear you complain.

ApocalypseShadow247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

Yeah. Because offering more games to play for less annually in price, even with a price increase, is inferior./S

Microsoft offering their own games day one, that don't sell well, that are barely making it in reviews, is not better. Halo or Red Fall offered day one still won't be better than Horizon or Tsushima offered a year later or so.

It's about sales and quality. Or what's the point of Microsoft being in the game industry. Oh that's right, just to buy it up because of lack of sales and quality releases.

Profchaos247d ago

What do you mean there's a massive backlash going on right now over their 40 percent price gouging

Aloymetal247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

''Sony already charges you way more FOR AN INFERIOR PS Plus, and we don´t hear you complain.''
INFERIOR to xbox fanatics (which are miniscule) since the majority of home console gamers prefer the Sony ecosystem which includes its games and consoles. Have you seen the hardware and software sales from PS yet???
You all keep forgetting that the xbox brand is an afterthought around the planet, most don't care.

MrBaskerville247d ago

@ApocalypseShadow
Depending on mood, one could argue that Psplus has both more games and better games than gamepass. Atleast right now, if you enjoy jrpgs and stuff.

EvertonFC247d ago

I went through the GP library in 3 Months with games that interested me, The nxt time I get GP will be for 1 Month for playing HB2

mandf247d ago

The game catalog for ps is immensely superior to gamepass. Better rated games and more games than gamepass. All gamepass has is day one games. That's it nothing else.

PhillyDonJawn247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

That's the funny part. Sony was first to introduce games under subscriptions and they were first to raise the price but they all over gamepass 😂

Obscure_Observer247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

@ApocalypseShadow

It´s the inferior service filled with old games and it still didn´t stop Sony from increase it´s value up 40% while people like you will defend and praise it to the high havens.

You can try and spin all you want but you KNOW that you´re getting less paying for more.

You get what you deserve.

It is what it is.

Einhander1972247d ago

You're ruining gaming for everyone including yourself.

shinoff2183247d ago

Idk what you mean by inferior, I think ps plus has better games hands down. It just doesn't have day one but I'm not worried about that. Day one these days feel more and more like betas Ala starfield. Good game but I'm gonna wait for a few updates cause it feels like it's missing stuff, map, lore etc

andy85246d ago

Except they don't though do they? It's cheaper and has twice the amount of games.

S2Killinit246d ago

Obscure is Spinning spinning spinning

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Profchaos247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

That's the downfall of subscriptions when gp was announced I expected a services I'd pay 6 bucks a month for and I'd get a whole host of older games that I missed out on playing so in 2016 for example I was thinking far cry 4, mirrors edge catalyst etc

The reality was far from that and honestly not what I wanted and the service has continued to be mostly Indies I can't imagine many people want to pay top dollar for a bunch of unknown games like it's the action 52 mega drive cartridge

thesoftware730247d ago

There is always a choice man.

You sound silly, just buy your games, no company will ever stop selling games, no need for a sub if you don't think it's worth it.

Dramatic as fuck.

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Notellin247d ago

No one is locked in to a subscription service you can cancel at any moment or play elsewhere.

ocelot07247d ago

Gamepass has been around since 2017. 6 years later and Microsoft are still rift rafting with numbers. It's never going to be dominant it's Microsoft last throw of the dice imo n

PhillyDonJawn247d ago

How would I have no choice? Buying games will no longer be an option?

recoctimocassirnff246d ago

Correct, Jin.

All you have to do is contemplate for just a moment, look just a little ahead to the future to understand this is exactly where ms wants to take the industry.

I don't understand why people are cheering for this kind of future without choice. Don't you understand what happens when there isn't choice?

JackBNimble246d ago

You mean like how every tear of psn just increased the price?

S2Killinit246d ago

All your games are rented on gamepass. You dont own any of it. Stop monthly payments and poof.

On topic though, another price increase?!

Barlos246d ago

Yup. That's exactly the plan

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ChiefofLoliPolice247d ago

Well duh it course it will. I have sounded like a broken record saying this. It will happen.

zaanan247d ago

Yes, but what about the “unannounced” Japanese games? MS has long been the leader in vapourware, could this be more of the same?

Crows90246d ago

First we didn't say exclusive in that sentence...at least not from the title headline. If that's the case then there's nothing new here. There are always unannounced Japanese games.

VersusDMC247d ago

It just increased recently...1$ more a month for gamepass and 2$ more a month for ultimate. Do people keep forgetting this?

Harkins1721247d ago

I'll own my games thank you. Will wait for price drops and scoop them up on Black Friday.

OptimusDK247d ago

Yeahh and the funny thing is - this does not change your ability to do exactly that.
It is crazy how people think this changes what you have always been dooing - just keep dooing it if that is what you want. It is not like it will only be on gamepass. It is an option if you want.

But i am quite sure this would have a totaly different tune if it was for the blue team.

ChiefofLoliPolice247d ago

What you don't realize is that MS vision is to do away with "your ablilty to do exactly that". Open your fucking eyes man and look at what MS wants to do. They want to consolidate the whole gaming industry.

Consolidation means less choice, less competition, price gouging, less quality games. You see this with many other industries and even some game franchises (Madden perfect example).

If MS keeps this up this week just Xbox gamers in the long run too.

Harkins1721246d ago

I'm not saying it changes. But they can pull from the store, delist and censor at any time if you just use gamepass. All I said is it's not for me and I'll continue to buy my games digital or physical.

If Sony had it I still wouldn't want it. I just canceled my PS+ because I'm fed up with the price increases. I've started buying games on the cheap when they're on Steam because of the past few years of the console manufacturers. I only had PS+ for cloud storage. And they don't release enough PS1/PS2 games for me to consider getting a higher tier. I just wait for those to hit the shop as well.

EvertonFC247d ago

Prediction : by 2030 when GP has not moved much from 25m subs Xbox will be no more imo, Phil himself has said if were not at the 50m plus sub count by 2030 it ain`t looking good for them.
Sacred symbols have a good episode this week regarding the leaks.

OptimusDK247d ago

Well Sony seemed pritty scared not thinking they could sustain an XBOX with COD on gamepass.

gold_drake247d ago

true, however, Ohil says alot of things without meaning them, or things that have no substance.

hes also super dramatic about things.

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ARK: Survival Ascended Premium Mods on Consoles Q&A - By 2030, Time Spent on UGC Will Be Way Bigger

ARK: Survival Ascended has introduced Premium Mods on consoles. Wccftech talked to Studio Wildcard and their partner Overwolf about the rising importance of user-generated content, especially for live service games.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken4d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty4d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken4d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty4d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken4d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0074d ago (Edited 4d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken4d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot4d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto4d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer4d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek4d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken3d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie3d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12085d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast5d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit5d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export4d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2034d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai6d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H96d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1016d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H96d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion6d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_926d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19726d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing696d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard5d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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