Phil Spencer took to the stage at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live convention to share two fascinating tidbit of Xbox enterprise data: Xbox Game Pass is outwardly a “worthwhile” product for the corporate, and its earnings make up 15 % of Microsoft’s content material & providers income.

The feedback (documented by The Verge) lastly shed some mild on what Game Pass is doing for Microsoft’s Xbox enterprise. Spencer performed down the notion that content material & providers might be solely pushed by subscriptions. “We don’t have this future the place I believe 50–70 % of our income comes from subscriptions,” he mused.

Spencer additionally added that Game Pass’ accelerating progress is at present occurring on PC, with console progress having begun to decelerate. “Mainly as a result of in some unspecified time in the future you’ve reached everyone on console that wishes to subscribe,” he mentioned.

Knowing that Game Pass represents 15 % of Xbox content material & providers would usually give us some fascinating context about how a lot income that represents. However, Microsoft doesn’t share laborious income numbers for that monetary division. 

Regulators in Brazil not too long ago revealed that Xbox Game Pass pulls in about $2.9 billion in income on consoles as a part of the nation’s regulatory scrutiny over Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. 

Spencer’s feedback about PC versus console progress additionally level to the corporate’s curiosity in using its Xbox sport library on platforms past Xbox consoles. Not solely has Microsoft labored with Samsung to deploy an Xbox Cloud Gaming app on Samsung TVs, different regulatory disclosures have revealed that the corporate is trying to construct its personal cellular app retailer. 

Despite the muddled monetary numbers, Spencer’s feedback do definitely give context for the way Game Pass suits into Microsoft’s enterprise. And it is undoubtedly an indication that subscription-based sport providers will probably be exert an enormous quantity of gravity on the sport trade going ahead.