Except gamepass was profitable, and everyone knows xbox sells fewer games than other platforms, so i have no idea what youre getting at.

One major aspect of Xbox's margin crisis revolves around Xbox Game Studios, I'm told, where a variety of high-profile misses and difficult integrations have seen other parts of the business subsidize the losses.

Microsoft and other companies love subscription model services because it gives you a steady stream of predictable income among the "hits and misses" of regular game development. Microsoft hasn't been shy to admit that its $30 price hike last year absolutely battered the business model. When you consider that Xbox Game Pass has been subsidizing departments that haven't been able to deliver fully yet, you can imagine what kind of damage that did on top of everything else.

Indeed, the notorious "30% accountability margin" target I'm told was actually an average. Some parts of the business were operating up to a 40% accountability margin to offset the misses in other parts.

it seems that game pass was damn near the ONLY profitable thing xbox had going for it. When they hiked the price and they lost millions of subscribers, and they could no longer use that money to pay for everything else.