Xbox Game Pass Earns $230 Million Revenue In A Single Month; Majority Users Pay For Full Subscription

Xbox Game Pass has come a long way in the current gen, and a recent earnings estimate further solidifies its status in the industry. It seemingly earned over a gargantuan $230 million in revenue in a single month, as unveiled in the newly leaked and redacted Microsoft vs. FTC case docs. Based on the calculations done by TweakTown, the subscription service may have earned roughly $231.5 million in revenue for April 2022.

The redacted Xbox Game Pass slides mention that the massive gaming service produced an average of $9.26 per user’s subscription. The total earnings of $231.5 million are estimated by the fact that Game Pass boasted over 25 million users as of January 18, 2022. The number also implies that about 3.1 million PC Game Pass subscribers were using the service during that time.

Additionally, most gamers subscribed to Game Pass are spending full price for their subscription. According to the estimates, the net earnings of $9.26 nearly align with the actual $9.99 monthly cost of the base Game Pass console and PC tier.

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The giant conglomerate also provided an overview of its gaming ecosystem as of April 2022 in one of the slides that were not redacted. The statistics revealed that a staggering 21.9 million subscribers of the 33.6 million on its Xbox consoles were for Game Pass. The rest of 11.7 million were Xbox Live Gold users. It is worth noting these statistics do not include the recent growth spurts that happened in the recent months.

The sheet also reveals Xbox Live boasted over 112 million quarterly active subscribers at the time. 51.3 million of these were console gamers, while the other 48.7 million were actively playing games. It is worth noting that Xbox Live Gold could be changed with a new Game Pass tier.

All in all, the new revenue amount has left the community quite shocked, to say the least. In some related news, the next-gen Xbox consoles are already in the works behind the curtains; a recently surfaced FTC document implies that Microsoft will launch its next consoles in 2028. It also fully aligns with another court filing a few months ago, where it expected the next-gen to begin in 2028.

For the current generation, fans can expect brand new Xbox Series models for next year. Even the designs of a disc-less Xbox Series X refresh have surfaced amid the recent spurts of redacted doc leaks in the industry.

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