Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball says Xbox Game Pass lost “millions” of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025
At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox's new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company's big moves recently …
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imagine watching Netflix slowly boil its customers with incremental price hikes and saying “nah, we'll go our own way” [embedded post]
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