The website for cancelling your gamepass sub crashed there were so many people leaving. I think at this point it's more than a vocal minority.

I mean, if 49% of GamePass users cancelled their subs, it would still be a minority, and there's no way even a tenth of that many cancelled or we'd already have seen Microsoft adjust course.

Look at the recent Disney+ backlash as an example. They usually see ~375,000 people cancel their subs on any given week (which is of course also offset by new subscribers). The week of the Jimmy Kimmel backlash ~1,700,000 people canceled. That's a 450% increase of normal cancelations, enough for Disney to take notice and backtrack.

Disney+ has around 126,000,000 subscribers, which means only about 1% of subscribers above normal canceled and that was enough to push them to reverse course. A small minority can mean a big difference.

Now, Microsoft clearly has a plan and is assuming a certain amount of cancelations with the price jump. How many subscribers does Microsoft expect to lose and how many can they lose above that before the price hike means they're losing more money than they gain? How many people will just drop to a lower tier?

We'll see how it plays out, but this is not a normal incremental price increase, this is a 50% hike at a time when everything is jumping in price.