{"id":124373,"date":"2022-03-28T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124373"},"modified":"2022-03-28T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T09:19:26","slug":"square-enix-earned-up-to-r150-million-for-putting-guardians-of-the-galaxy-on-game-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/124373-square-enix-earned-up-to-r150-million-for-putting-guardians-of-the-galaxy-on-game-pass","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix earned up to R150 million for putting Guardians of the Galaxy on Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix\u2019s decision to release Guardians of the Galaxy on Xbox Game Pass reportedly earned the company a one-time payment of R70 &#8211; R150 million.<\/p>\n<p>This figure\u00a0comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gibbogame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Gibson<\/a>, a Senior Analyst at MST Financial, and has not been officially confirmed by Square Enix or Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson has covered Square Enix for over 15 years and regularly communicates with them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Keep in mind that MSFT paid about US$5-$10m for Guardians of the Galaxy to be on Games Pass&#8230; that is like $2 per game when retail is $29. Ok that is all profit but not too many publishers will be doing that given the low economics from Game Pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Gibson (@gibbogame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gibbogame\/status\/1507601511307628547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His estimate means that Square Enix was paid around R30 for each game copy that can be played on Game Pass. Although profitable, it is not something many developers would be happy to do.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/124367-ps5-spartacus-wont-be-following-xbox-game-pass-best-feature\">PS5\u2019s Spartacus won\u2019t offer best Xbox Game Pass feature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix\u2019s decision to release Guardians of the Galaxy on Xbox Game Pass reportedly earned the company a one-time payment of R70 &#8211; R150 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":123750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[24079,12038,211],"class_list":["post-124373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-xbox","tag-game-pass","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","tag-square-enix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}