Football Manager boss disputes PlayStation's 'value destructive' Xbox Game Pass claim. 'I don't recognise that in our business, it's all very sunny for us.'
Among the many, many claims and discoveries flying around in the wake of Microsoft's ongoing FTC lawsuit over the attempted purchase of Activision Blizzard, one particular quote stands out: PlayStation boss Jim Ryan's accusation that Xbox Game Pass and other subscription-based servicesRyan, speaking in pre-recorded video testimony, also claimed other publishers"unanimously do not like Game Pass" for that reason.
"We run quite a tight ship," he continued,"and I like our studio to be profitable - Sega took a big gamble on us all those years ago, and their shareholders - however weird it might sound - should be rewarded for that. So we don't tend to do deals that are bad for any parts of the business." "The simple fact is Game Pass and Apple Arcade have brought new people to the franchise that never played it before," Jacobson told Eurogamer."I'm confident enough in our games to believe we will now have those consumers for a long time, whatever platforms we're on. Fiscally, it makes sense. Creatively, it makes sense.
in 2021, Anna Downing, senior vice president of commercial publishing at Sega Europe, said the publisher was"really happy with the results, and we hope [Microsoft] are too. Ultimately, they wanted quality titles, we wanted to take advantage of a great new opportunity." "The last Game Pass deal we did," he explained,"we've basically then just taken the money that came from that deal, and we're now funding three more games... we've got four games coming out this year and three of those were essentially funded using Game Pass money." The cyclical effect of this can, he explained, be transformative for small or mid-sized publishers.
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