> - Then they did not have to give away popular games day one on Game Pass > - And finally, they did not have to raise Game Pass prices to improve the profit margins. Of course, consumers pulled out.

I saw this coming from day one. The instant they did Netflix for Games, it was going to gut their margins. And then the inevitable pullback, either holding new games for months or raising the price, was going to kill the value proposition.

They said "This will make us a mint" and celebrated the victory years too early.