Regulators in Brazil have revealed how a lot Microsoft constituted of Xbox Game Pass on consoles in 2021, and it is a fairly sizeable determine.
As noticed by Tweaktown, Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) lately accepted Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and in outlining its rationale shared some fairly attention-grabbing tidbits – together with how a lot money Microsoft’s sport subscription service raked in final yr.
Breaking down how a lot Xbox Game Pass earns on consoles in comparison with some rivals, CADE revealed that the service generated $2.9 billion in 2021 alone. According to CADE, that info was supplied by Microsoft itself.
As the chart beneath reveals, that is considerably greater than rivals EA and Nintendo earned from their very own subscription choices – though it ought to be famous that each corporations supply completely different propositions to Game Pass, which supplies entry to an expansive library of first and third celebration content material.
Putting that into context, Xbox income totalled $16.28 billion in the course of the 2021 fiscal yr, that means Xbox Game Revenue represented round 18 p.c of that quantity.
Again, it is price noting that the $2.9 billion determine shared by CADE would not embody Xbox Game Pass for PC income, so the providers’ precise worth to Microsoft will doubtless be a lot greater than indicated by CADE.
In phrases of how that spending shakes out within the context of subscribers, Tweaktown notes that Game Pass subscribers had been someplace within the 15 million to 18 million ballpark based mostly on official figures supplied across the time.
Microsoft has bolstered its subscriber depend since then, nevertheless, and in January this yr revealed the service boasted over 25 million subscribers.
