Despite rumors, Cyberpunk 2077 heading to Xbox Series X Game Pass does not make any sense.
First, why do this Smart Delivery promotion at all if Cyberpunk was coming to Game Pass, which would negate that? But past that, there’s the obvious fact that there are probably no terms that could get CDPR to agree to a deal like this unless Microsoft was willing to shell out not just millions, butThe Witcher 3 was an absolute monster success for CDPR, and the last sales tracked show 28 million copies moved, but recent interest in the Netflix series has sparked even more.
While Microsoft has put its own first party offerings on Game Pass as a way to encourage players to flock to the Xbox ecosystem and the subscription service, getting big third party games, and bigThe equivalent example would be asking how much Netflix would be willing to pay Disney to have Avengers: Infinity War launch on its service instead of in theaters with people paying $15 a ticket. The answer is that it’s probably impossible.
The point being, Cyberpunk is a such a sales draw that CDPR obviously wants as many people to pay $60 for a new copy as possible. In fact, a deal with Game Pass could actuallyagainst Microsoft, as CDPR would be more prone to promote the $60 copy on PS5, given that the game would now be on Xbox with Game Pass for “free.
Game Pass, at this point, is already pretty much a must-have for anyone who owns an Xbox unless you want to inefficiently spend money on your library for the duration of a console generation. There’s just too much value thereto get it if you’re an Xbox player. Past that, this time around, Microsoft has promised Halo Infinite, its massive launch title and one of the biggest games of the year, will arrive on Game Pass on day one as a Series X launch title.
So in short, this deal makes sense for no one. CDPR would risk too much revenue loss by putting Cyberpunk on Game Pass, Microsoft would probably have to spend so much to secure it that it wouldn’t be worth the trouble. So expect to buy Cyberpunk like you would any other game for a long, long while.
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