30 Million Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions By ‘Halo Infinite’ Seems Guaranteed

Tracking the growth of Xbox Game Pass over the past years is nothing short of eye-popping, and it seems pretty clear that Microsoft is going to be reaching some massive milestones soon enough here.

[rlow1]

Well, as long as they keep it supplied with good games then I believe they will make it.

[Orchard]

Seems likely - we haven’t seen an update in a while on numbers (unless I missed it?) - so they’re probably in the 20’s now and Halo is going to be huge.

Keep the good games flowing in and they’ll hit 50 in no time.

[Magog]

Halo multiplayer is going f2p so you won't even need gold to play it. It will be funded by micro transactions.

[lonewolf10]

Will it?

[DJStotty]

"Halo multiplayer is going f2p so you won't even need gold to play it. It will be funded by micro transactions."

You mean like every F2P game on the market?

[Jericho1337]

Over 23 million - https://www.google.co.uk/am...

And exactly right, more offerings like Outriders and The Medium day 1 is too good to pass up.

[gravedigger]

Well, we will see the official numbers soon.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

MS personal target is said to be 30 million by the end of the year. If Battlefield and other major AAA third party hit the service day one, Ubisofts games and 1st party hit the service (Infinite, Forza Starfield if it releases this year)

30 million will be most attainable considering they're at 20 somethin million now.

[Orchard]

If they're over 23 mil by now, I expect them to get to 30mil by EOY without Battlefield or Ubisoft. BF and Ubisoft would likely put them way over 30m.

[Zhipp]

I don't think there's any chance of a big Ubi game or Battlefield day one on Gamepass. Those games are just too big. The cost would be too great for microsoft to justify considering they already have their own major 1st party titles launching around the same time.

[Orchard]

@Zhipp There were insider rumors going around that MS were talking to Ubisoft to strike a similar deal to that of EA Play and would announce at E3 / later this year, and also that a 'AAA third party FPS game' is coming to GP Day 1 in Holiday 2021... so that would suggest COD or BF, and it obviously won't be COD since they have a PS marketing deal.

I guess we'll see - either or both of those would make for a huge E3 bombshell announcement.

[CYALTR]

Here we go!!! Let the bashing begin

[ocelot07]

As long as they keep these £1 a month or £1 for 3 month offers rolling I'll happy sub each month.

[Father__Merrin]

When I tried that it says only for new subs? An I doing anything wrong here

[Tedakin]

You only get the first 3 months for a dollar. You can't just pay 1 dollar forever.

[mkis007]

You have to unsub for a month to get new offer. That worked for me for a year before I bought costco codes and got 3 years for $151.

[ocelot07]

So what i have been doing is it started with a £1 for 1 month offer. Once the sub expired I would give it a few days 3-7 days and then I would go to sign up for gamepass again and another offer would be their weather that be £1 for a month of pc gamepass or £1 for 3 months of pc gamepass or £1 for 1 month of ultimate or 3 months of ultimate. Each and every month without fail for the past I think 13-14 months now.

[RedDevils]

Lol that what I'm doing.

[GamesAsAService]

I started to think about this very thing, and I wonder how many outside of this community took advantage of these offers (1$ Game Pass Ultimate conversion of 36 months of gold). While I believe many in THIS community that take part in discussion here and on other forums probably took advantage of this offer, I think the casual (and majority) were not aware of these offers.

I am starting to think that those of us who took advantage of the 36 months for $1, probably only comprise a single digit percentage of the total Game Pass subscriber base.

Interested in thinking what others think.

[Magog]

It was widely advertised.. I would say it's more like 90%.

[Sayai jin]

@Magog, where did you get 90% from? I'll wait...

[PrinceAli]

This is certainly wrong lool.. with the amount of advertising that was going on for it and the amount of codes being put up on on every snack, candy, and promotional materials theres no way WE gamers represent the majority no way in hell

[Highrevz]

I’d say about 20-30% of people are aware of how to get the best value or are still on there original 36 months.

A lot of people are happy to just leave subscriptions running and most just simply aren’t aware of how to get it cheaper.

A small amount of people will be using throw away accounts but they are the people that wouldn’t of already paid for Xbox live.

Pure guesses of course.
I’d be curious to know how many people are paying for Xbox live without having GPU.

[scott1234678]

Just google gamepass ultimate buy now and you get all sorts of offers i pay £3 and get 4 weekly trials you just redeem the code saves £9 a month.

[Sayai jin]

Mosy of those deals are for new game pass accounts.

[Truplaya]

I just use the rewards program to keep topping up my ultimate. Always ahead and it never runs out :)

[Sayai jin]

@Trueplaya, yup that's the way.

[Father__Merrin]

Ocelot. I've 3 months GP ultimate that cMe with series x. Once that runs out your saying I should cancel so it won't auto bill then wait a few days and try sign in again?

[ocelot07]

Yer give it a try the longest I have had to wait for a new offer is a week. But don't expect gamepass ultimate all the time. I mostly only get offered standard gamepass. But since I only play on PC this is fine for me. But I do sometimes get offered ultimate.

[DJStotty]

@ocelot07

"As long as they keep these £1 a month or £1 for 3 month offers rolling I'll happy sub each month."

New subscribers introductory offer only, unless you want to create a new account each month.

[ocelot07]

Nope been doing this for over a year now. Unless they have changed it in the last 9 days then it still works as I got my latest month for a pound 9 days ago.

[DJStotty]

Strange that, even the youtube tutorial states to get the £1 offer each month, you need multiple accounts :-

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

Would you be able to link a tutorial on how to do this? i would like to take advantage when i start paying again in october, without having multiple accounts.

[ReadyPlayer22]

Lmao, you've been beating this dead horse for years now. You're telling me that the biggest software company in the world has this one oversight that only YOU have access to. The $1 deal is only new accounts only. Unless you're using MS rewards to top off Game Pass (even then you're still spending money to MS)

[ocelot07]

Yes I I'm clearly the only one in the world doing this. Yup just me and you have proof right? Yer spent many hours researching questioned every gamepass subscriber and found I and me alone in the universe that does this.

But seriously this is what I have been doing for a good 13 or so months now. If things have changed in the last 10 days then I apologise. But 10 days ago for the 13th month I once again resubbed to pc gamepass for £1 for 1 month. If it's changed by this time next month fair enough I won't sub until the next big game. But if I get the £1 offer again then I shall be subbing for another month.

[NotoriousWhiz]

It might depend on region. I know it's only for new customers in US. So I normally do the: buy 12 months of xbl gold and then one month of gp ultimate for 13 months of gp ultimate.

[Magog]

Playstation Plus has over 40 million and offers better games.

[purple101]

Sony just signed a multiplayer game exclusive deal with ex destiny..so ex bungie.. so ex halo developers...

I wonder how many of the actual halo developers ( that made 1, 2, 3 and reach ), are still working at Microsoft! probably not many.

[Highrevz]

Jumping the gun a bit here, Sony is yet to offer a decent online game but I’d like to see them have a good try at it.

[Ausbo]

I don’t think you realize that when Xbox formed 343, they sniped a bunch of bungies devs that wanted to continue to work on halo. There’s still a lot.

[DJStotty]

@purple101

The majority of 343 is made up of ex-bungie developers :-

[purple101]

@djscotty

Whilst I kind of agree with you I'm also wondering because there is the team Activision that makes destiny then there's 343 that makes halo then there's this new you PlayStation owned team.

So they must be spread out quite a bit in different studios.

Halo used to be my shiz.!
Double needler bouncing pink shells of walls around corners in tighter areas!

Super fun
I had quake 3 arena on PC years ago, so... Halo was next best...or even better to be fair.

These days I wouldn't touch a Xbox again though. Not after ps4. After the 7 years of that generation (the one just gone) there really was no comparison. And the PS4 pro I bought, with two games, for £299, id class as probably one of the best things I've ever bought, -that's been used every single day! Easily worth the money.

[NeoGamer232]

Playstation Plus competes with XBL Gold not GamePass.

[Magog]

Disagree. I have over 670 games through Playstation plus. That's a much bigger catalog than gamepass.

[Zhipp]

@magog
That's your personal catalogue, though. It's not comparable to Gamepass, where everyone has the same games regardless of when they subscribed.

[Kakashi Hatake]

Plus and Now is the same price as GP. With that, I'd say GP is way overrated because it's all MS has to talk about.

[PS-Gamer-1986]

@Kakashi.
Ofcourse they do. They counted on bragging about offering the most powerful console for the whole gen, but that did not work out as expected. So gamepass is at least something they can talk about

[DJStotty]

@magog

You must have a large storage drive?

I am at 270 games on series X, and the internal is full, as well as a 4TB external.

[NeoGamer232]

@Magog
XBL Gold gives you monthly games - PS Plus gives you monthly games. It should be noted that PS Plus has given over double the games that XBL Gold has

XB GamePass is streaming and Netflix type access to games - PS Now is streaming and Netflix type access to games. Should be noted that PSNow has over double the games that GamePass does

XB GamePass Ultimate is XBL Gold + GamePass (For both PC and Console + EA Play - Sony has no competitor to that yet. If you look at the combination of all these serivces, all the games delivered are about 1.5 times the number of games you could've received on PS Plus.

PS Plus now has some games come on then disappear (Destruction All-Stars was a most recent example), also if you quit subscribing to PS Plus you no longer have access to the games. XBL Gold you own the games they give you even if you stop subscribing, but they don't give you as many games.

You have to remember that since 2010 PS Plus has given games as part of the service so accessing 670 games over more then a decade is not impressive. XB Games Pass has been around for only 3 years and has had over 800 games during that time. Also, unless you have a PS3, you cannot play your PS Plus games from the PS3 era. So, someone who only bought a PS4 or higher cannot claim they have received 670 games in PS Plus. And PS Now does not give them access to that game ownership.

[InUrFoxHole]

Lmao! I enjoy a good trolling sir!

[DJStotty]

"Playstation Plus has over 40 million and offers better games."

And this article about gamepass getting to 30 mil is associated with PS+ how?

[bartender64]

You gotta love how he says he has downloaded 670 games from ps plus. That's not possible, since ps plus has been available for little under 11 years. He must have been downloading 5 games every month for the past 11 years to achieve that, and we all know ps plus doesn't offer 5 games a month.

[MadLad]

I disagree, but hey ... opinions.

[derek]

47 million

[franwex]

So should we all cancel game pass then?

[Destiny1080]

but halo is a free to play game, it wont sell a single gamepass subscription and not even, the little gold service is needed anymore

[Tedakin]

The Halo multiplayer is free to play. The campaign is not.

[SlothLordPootus]

I'm not part of the community, so I'm just relaying what I've heard, but isn't that what most Halo players play nowadays? I heard people majorly disliked the 4 and 5 campaigns.

I'm interested to see FPS sales/play count numbers this year. Curious if Battlefield and Halo will steal a significant portion away from Warzone.

[Zhipp]

@Sloth
Fans loved the 4 campaign and hated 5's. Feelings towards multiplayer for the two games were the inverse.

[purple101]

30million free trials of which Only 10 milion kept on paying -...I jest... Sorry...

[Thundercat77]

Shhh... They don't like to hear the truth around here 🤫

[roadkillers]

I do take advantage if gamepass. I got ultimate for 180$ over 3 years. If they can offer purchased games (RE8) by streaming as well as download, I think it will be a homerun.

[Youngindy21]

@roadkillers
You do know that is a thing already, right? It's called Remote Play.

[anubusgold]

@Youngindy21 and its bad they dont have microsofts servers that are all over the world the only other service that can compete is Nvidia's thats not a laggy mess looking at you stadia .

[roadkillers]

@Youngindy21

What I am looking for is the to bypass the updates, use the fastest technology, and graphics that the cloud will allow. I only have a Xbox one, which I understand a Series will help out. The worst aspect of last gen was all of the downloads and updates. I want to play CoD with a buddy, turn it on and have to wait an hour for a patch.

[DJStotty]

23 million current paid subscribers, not gamers on free trials as the free trial was discontinued in 2020.

Even at £1/$1 per month for everyone, that is at least 23 million dollars per month, without doing anything.

Say 15 million (50%) pay the full fee, that is just short of $120 million dollars per month.

Gamepass are doing just fine lol, more to the point, time to try out MLB 21 for "free"

[DJStotty]

@SierraGuy

"Let us know how Returnal plays."

Will do once i get a PS5.....

Not sure how else you would like me to respond?

[derek]

Gamepass is a loss leader, you think running that service is cheap? That's the Netflix business model, lose billions of dollars upfront to grow the customer base then you slowly raise the price down the line. I think it's a dumb idea and hope nobody else follows suit. Microsoft has trained a large section of the fanbase to not pay for games development.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Please stop making so much sense around here it's not allowed...

[anubusgold]

@derek Developers said they saw game sales increase by 4 times after they launch on game pass because people can still buy the game and alot do.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Source?

[CrimsonWing69]

Look, I know Team Sony vs Team Xbox is the whole brand wars, here. I was totally Team Sony for PS4, but I own both consoles and Gamepass has really kept me on the Xsex over the PS5... I mean Nier Replicant is going to change that up, but my point is Gamepass is simply an incredible deal and has an amazing amount of games to play, new and old.

[mattyhaxxx2]

It’s well deserved they really pulled the brand out of the ashes near the end of the Gen. game pass is awesome

[hiawa23]

I am loving Gamepass Ultimate right now.

[EasilyTheBest]

Gamepass is amazing. The thing is at my local Game store recently Outriders was £54.99 Gears Tactics was £49.99 & Dirt 4 was £39.99.
I have all 3 games loaded on Gamepass plus about 10 others with hundreds of other games to chose from. This cost me £49 for Gamepass Ultimate for a year which I got on Ebay.
It's ridiculous value. I know some ppl say they prefer to buy their games but it's worth buying Gamepass just to use to try games out & if you particularly like a game you can still buy it.

[Brazz]

not so sure...

[chiefJohn117]

They'll hit 50 in 2023 I bet
Now do yall believe me? I said MS had more subs than PS with around 50-60 combined and PS gamers said I was lying. GP alone bout to hit 30. Do you hear me now?

[Kenna]

No you said 60 million gold but changed it later when people started calling you out

[chiefJohn117]

....lol I did I was just making it clear that's all and people still denied it. Hate to say I told yall so but...

[chiefJohn117]

FREE 3 MONTH GAME PASS CODE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
I've already subbed before so I'm not able to redeem sadly so im giving it away.

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[chobit_A5HL3Y]

it would be nice if any of these companies could actually maintain a decent stock of their consoles. seems like a pretty bad oversight lol

[S2Killinit]

They’re turning the most obvious things into advertisement. Its genius. “Reaching 30 million subscriptions” “fps boost for older games on a new console.” These are not normally something that makes news. But MS reports on it like its achievements. Its a good idea. But whats missing is games related news. Where are the games? I hope the funding for these ads isnt coming out of what would be used for making games. Remember last gen MS promised “2 billion dollars invested for games”? Turned out it was spent on ads.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Umm fps boost on older games IS major news as NO OTHER console has done this. Secondly MS just spent a BILLION on Bethesda so I'd call that a MAJOR investment. You really think MS spent all that money just to brag about it? Lol silly kid MS are making new games as we speak. Stop being a hater it's not good for the soul.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

"MS reports on it like its achievements."

MS isn't at 30 million yet and the FPS boost stuff is simply MS letting its customers know that more games are boosted, because ppl like to know? I think I guess.. /s

It's not an achievement, it's a simple update.

In terms of some of the games. Infinite does monthly updates, the new Forza is set to have an internal Beta this year and Ninja Theory released a dev diary update on the production of the game.

You and the rest of fanboy squad need to come up with new concern trolling lines instead of always saying "where are the games " then I say deep in development still." then you'll forget and say "where are the games" again like you have short term memory or somethin.

[FlavorLav01]

We haven’t forgot, we’ve just been waiting that long...so, the vicious cycle continues,....where are the games?

[AuraAbjure]

For $120/year not worth it to me. Unlike many I was never a Netflix guy. $80/year for Xbox Live Gold is fine for me :)

[tombfan]

Microsoft has the money to support Game Pass tho at the long rong it's unsustainable, even if you have an audience of 30,000,000 people paying for it, they only pay like 60dlls a year for new games, in the long run that will surely mean that (let's hope not) a lot of games will see their quality cut because of smaller budgets.

[AuraAbjure]

I bet it pencils out. Especially with GamePass Ultimate costing as much as 3 new games per year. Also, when people spend a ton of time on their Xbox they're inclined to splurge on other Microsoft products & or services plain & simple. And with this strategy people are spending a lot of time on their Xbox.

[AuraAbjure]

For example, when I was spending a ton of time on my Xbox I splurged on Groove by Microsoft. No way would I have done that had I not been spending so much time on my Xbox. Bummer Groove went the way of the dinosaur.

[akaFullMetal]

I wonder what the 1st plateau they will run into. Is 30 million the start of that? We will see once the promotions go away I suppose. Some people have it preloaded with the promotions for 3 years, so maybe in a year or two we will see where they really stand afterwards.

[FlavorLav01]

To hell with gamepass. I’ll stick with paying for games that deserve to be payed for, not old filler content and empty GAAS types that continually rotate anyways. Wish MS still made games worth the full price of admission.