 Hey everyone how's it going I want to address Game Pass because Game Pass is the greatest deal in gaming but I've seen as we head into the Xbox Series X slash S launch next week I think on Monday in fact there's a Tuesday I don't know on the 10th that people are trying to tear down Game Pass as this thing that gamers don't want as a thing that doesn't make sense and this thing that is a waste of time and again people just don't want it right that that's what they're trying to tout out there like why would you want Game Pass it doesn't make any sense the only argument against Game Pass that makes sense in my opinion is you don't own your games just like subscribing on Netflix or Hulu or anything else you have no control over the content you have no control over ownership of ownership ownership of the games you know they could sift games in and out and you know you you don't get to control your access to games that way that is obviously one of the big negatives of Game Pass but it's expected just like for streaming services it's expected that you know you this is always something that you accept for the convenience of having a lot of content for relatively little money in fact in fact a lot of content that's continually being added to for very little bits of money and Game Pass is about to blow up even bigger because on the 10th when the Xbox Series X and S launch is also the same day that EA access joins Game Pass so yeah there's a lot of compelling reasons to get Game Pass but somebody put out a post on recent era that kind of summarizes all of the points that I have here heard touted over the last few weeks and even today about why Game Pass is such a bad idea and I wanted to go over it because I think that I love Game Pass and I feel that uh well Nintendo and Sony have somewhat similar concepts kind of like games of gold and then you get the PlayStation Network thing and you have the the SNES and NES stuff with Nintendo and I'm already a 35 as well Tetris attack so again everyone's dabbling in this a little bit I think what Microsoft is doing is scaring gamers and potentially making those that aren't fans of their platforms anyways jealous so because they're jealous they need to come up with reasons that it's a bad idea so let's get into what is being touted out there on the internet about why Game Pass is so terrible for gaming all right see this is put up by a shining star and it says reason one people don't like having a lot of games to play I have like over 80 games for switch 80 game yeah I don't like having a lot of games play okay I'll bite let's continue uh everyone is always complaining about their backlogs and how they will never get to all the games they own having a bunch of games just feels like work true we do complain at times without really complaining I think complaining is the wrong way to put it a lot of us mention that we have backlogs of games we haven't beat or haven't tried yet or in our thing whether it's from a steam sale or just games that we've checked out or purchased like indie titles we just haven't gotten to I think all of us have games like that in general but we all have those games we all paid for those games and because we have those games because we paid for those games it's just like a game pass yeah there's going to be games on game pass that we don't use that we don't play so what's your point at least I didn't pay a flat fee to own a game that I'm never going to touch the point is that we have backlogs in the first place so how's this any different onto the next point reason two people don't care about old games very generalized obviously they will always pass up old stuff to play new games and part of that of a conversation no one cares if you're playing game pass so he's got two points here one is that nobody plays old games if that were true why is the nest classic and this nest classic sold out and Nintendo have it hard to keep it in stock why are you know it's such a huge deal that PlayStation 5 has backwards compatibility of PlayStation 4 if old games don't matter people don't play old games so why is all this backwards compatibility stuff such a big deal and such a big selling point then if people don't play old games because they do people are constantly revisiting either games from their childhood or games from their back catalog that you mentioned we have that we never got to in addition sometimes people wait to pick up games because they're on a budget you know like it's going to be great on PlayStation 5 that I can go play all those PlayStation 4 games I missed because those PlayStation 4 games are going to be dirt cheap by the time I buy them so that's just amazing right so yeah I I honestly find this entire argument to be asinine uh and then his second point here where he mentioned you know no one cares if you're playing game pass you're right nobody cares if you're playing game pass nobody cares if you bought the game at launch nobody cares if you bought the game four months later when it cost ten dollars nobody cares if you rented the game off game fly nobody cares if you bought it physically or digitally either whatever way you decide to play games only should matter to you truthfully it should only matter to you like a majority of my switch library is digital and guess what nobody cares who cares that a majority of my library is digital instead of physical just like I don't care if a majority of your library is physical versus digital I don't care if you enjoy game streaming services like Google stadia more power to you I just used it you know not too long what a week ago two weeks ago to to do um you know a demo of uh phoenix rising I live streamed it on my twitch like yeah I use game streaming services too occasionally I've been streaming control on my switch nobody cares yes we all like options we all want to have options and that's what sucks on the switch you know when it comes to the game streaming like control is that there's only one option to play the game instead of multiple but xbox has given you options they didn't take away your physical games you can still buy these games physically you can buy them for 60 bucks a pop day one if you want just like you used to you can also also I don't know buy them digitally or rent them or just get game pass see what game pass is doing is tearing down the barrier to entry gaming is expensive this upcoming generation game pricing looks like it's attempting to change the standard pricing to 70 dollars a pop for triple a brand new next gen exclusive games that's what's what's attempted to be done the pricing is attempted to change the 70 so gaming is about to get more expensive during a pandemic forgive me but isn't Microsoft offering a budget oriented way to deliver games a positive and by the way this whole oh who cares about old games okay you don't have to care about old games how about the fact that all new games are on it too every new first party second party whatever exclusive game to the xbox ecosystem is going to be there too all future id software games are going to be there all future Bethesda games are going to be there as of november 10th all future EA games are going to be there day one brand new games are going to be there day one on game pass people care about that so it's not just about oh who cares about all those old games you get every new game to day one day one there's no delay there's not all you get a three days later or a week later day one at midnight go ahead and play that game what is the problem what's the problem why does it matter you know you say no one cares if you're playing game pass you clearly care if people are playing game pass because you're against it let's get to his final point reason three more on netflix for games thing games just aren't the same as movies and tv shows no one sits down not knowing or caring what what they are going to play the whole browsing the library and just picking out something to play i don't think that happens so ask someone with 70 plus games on my switch or 80 plus i can't remember my last count it's pretty high let me tell you how many times have i gone all the way over to the all games tab and just scrolled through my games to find something to play how many times have you gone back on your game shelf like say you have a shelf full of all these physical games how many times have you guys gone back to your games your game collection and just kind of gone through to pick out something you want to play it happens just because some gamers are tied into very specific games or certain types of games or one game for a long period of time doesn't mean that people don't browse through their library to pick something to play just like we do with movies and tv shows it happens with movies and tv shows well you'll even if you own a whole physical collection i own a bunch of physical blu-ray discs like sometimes you just go through them to pick out something to watch it happens it happens at every entertainment medium just like you browse through your playlist on spotify or whatever to play a song or you browse through netflix trying to find something it's the same thing with games people do this believe it or not it's not uncommon for people to browse through their library of games to find something they want to play and that's the same thing here with game pass the issue the issue i think this person really has um is you know because they they titled their thread i don't think game pass or netflix for games make sense i think the issue they have is that microsoft is offering something that its competitors can't afford to do microsoft is taking a loss on game pass a massive loss phil Spencer has already come out and admitted that this is not a profitable venture for them now they're they're looking in the long haul future where it could be popular or it could be have enough users to become self-sufficient and then eventually extremely popular so you know he didn't mention what the barrier for that is what he talked about getting up to 30 million 40 50 100 million plus people you know people because game pass is being offered across a whole bunch of different devices especially with x cloud integration coming involved as well so what microsoft's hoping is that they can hit critical mass and have hundreds of millions of people on game pass at that point it becomes profitable they have enough subscribers the gaming base is expanded to such a point the game pass is profitable despite microsoft paying despite microsoft paying all the developers for their games to be there so if you think about this what microsoft is is doing is investing in themselves they're investing millions if not billions of dollars potentially 7.5 billion dollars in game pass with that purchase of a tesla they are investing all this money into essentially game pass and other companies can't really afford to do it now nintendo has a lot of cash they could technically afford to take losses for a while to run a similar service but does that seem like nintendo is going to something nintendo is going to do and they still sell breath of the wild new for 60 bucks right now in age of calamity is coming out four years later three years later however long it's been like nintendo is not exactly going to be doing this they might do with their classic games nintendo switch online go right ahead play nes and snes but they're not doing this with their new new games uh and you know they don't quite have the similar service like the playstation network and uh games of gold has where you can get you know some new games uh added to the online uh like new new old new old games i guess is the way to do it or it can be a triple egg game that maybe came out last year uh nintendo does do some exclusive things like mario 35 or tetris 99 which now you can buy on its own but yeah that's not something that nintendo seems to be dabbling in sony doesn't have the cash flow to do this sony already publicly stated the reason they don't have a game pass service is it's not profitable for them they can't afford to do it now sony's got a big enough user base as does nintendo to not need to do a game pass and microsoft has kind of sort of been behind in the market for almost its entire existence beyond the xbox 360 days but yeah like i think that uh what microsoft is doing is smart what microsoft is doing is ahead of the game and is just getting to what gaming will eventually be someday where everything is subscription fees right now uh all of our music playing is mostly subscription fees all of our uh video watching is now mostly subscription fees and definitely being one of the first and so they're just ahead of the game and they're gonna have hundreds of millions of users someday using game pass using xcloud uh you know and and just enjoying games for cheap i think when i was a kid i dreamed of a service like this as i was renting games for you know 10 bucks a night sometimes it was kind of ridiculous what how much they were charging to rent games back then uh back in the 90s as i was renting games you don't think i'd rather take that 10 bucks throw it at at a service like game pass and just have access to hundreds and hundreds of games including brand new games day and date release of course i would the problem this person has is game pass is too good of an idea now again you don't own games i knew my worry what this means for the future of gaming if it got if it got big but those aren't the concerns brought up the concerns aren't brought up about ownership i i hardly ever see the ownership argument mentioned i hardly ever see people mentioned they're worried about the future of games of game pass blows up i hardly see those mentioned as valid points which are the only valid points i think exist to not like game pass otherwise let the rest of us that can't afford to buy hundreds of games every single generation enjoy the fact we now have access to more games than we maybe have ever had access to before thanks to game pass i am so stoked that day one i don't have to buy a game for the xbox series s i could just subscribe to a month of game pass which by the way is probably included free in the box so i don't even have to spend any money on games day one i could probably already play games right there on an xbox series x so yeah that's exciting i like that i'm not going to apologize for a game pass is one of the most brilliant ideas to happen to gaming in a hell of a long time and i can't wait to see it become such a success that nintendo and eventually sony hop on the bandwagon too because they will they will nintendo will probably at least nintendo is already hopping on game streaming nintendo nintendo will get there um sony we'll see again it requires an investment because you have game pass to compete with now you can't just come out and charge 60 bucks a month for a service that it's only 10 bucks on on microsoft so microsoft is setting the bar other people have to meet that bar so it is what it is i'm nintendo robert jance from nintendo prime i want to thank you so much for watching this video and i'll catch you in the next one