You keep talking about ad-bomb from Microsoft, which earlier in the week revealed that all games first party of Microsoft Studios will be included since launch Xbox Game Pass subscription. This has created a certain clamor, hinting clearly as the House of Redmond considers more profitable sale of subscriptions than individual games.

But it seems that Microsoft is not the only one who thinks so: the head of Microsoft's Gaming Division, Phil Spencer, has in fact explained on Twitter that other developers are watching with great interest to this model, and want to see the results the whole thing will have with the titles first party to decide whether to put their games from Day One.

Spencer explained that Microsoft, with the recent announcement, wanted to set an example by leading the way, but that the ultimate goal is to make the Xbox Game Pass a profitable model for other firms (which would receive a portion of the revenue based on usage statistics of their games). However, in the same post, Spencer mentioned the program director ID @ Xbox Chris Charla , implying therefore that, at least initially, most of the games coming to D1 in the passes are independent titles such as the highly anticipated Ashen and Below .

Another interesting comment by Spencer is finally that for the type of games that will benefit most of the model Xbox Game Pass : the manager has explained that the titles that might benefit more from a similar model are those single-player, because it is precisely in the context of narrative experiences this type of model has already proved its effectiveness in the world of TV (referring of course to Netflix).

And this has definitely sense: often people who play multiplayer titles focuses on very few titles that play with dedication for months or even years, so for this type of players might agree to buy directly the games rather than pay a subscription from month to month. Those who prefer single player titles, instead, goes continuously from one game to another, and we talk about titles that can last from a few hours (in the case of the Indies) to several tens of hours (as most famous RPG), and is therefore more sense to have a large library in subscription in which find new titles to play.

Obviously it won't be long before we start to see titles noble enter the Game passes since launch day, but for smaller titles as independent productions or maybe the Telltale Games episodic and Dontnod, this future might be closer to than we think. We look forward to further developments!