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Game Pass Could’ve Worked, Moon Studios Boss Says, But Xbox Never Delivered the Big Hits It Needed

Promotional artwork for Starfield featuring various characters and a robot, with the Xbox Game Pass logo prominently displayed.

The ongoing issues at Xbox, with several studios at risk of being shut down (chiefly Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games, and Double Fine Productions) and more layoffs sadly rumored to be on the way, have inevitably become a topic of discussion among industry members, even publicly. Replying to Duke Nukem creator George Broussard, who had wondered “where did Game Pass come from?”, Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler (Ori, No Rest for the Wicked) tweeted his theory that Game Pass is “a little like Communism” in that it does not give developers the incentive to “go the extra mile”. Ultimately, he mused, […]

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