{"id":24578,"date":"2023-02-13T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/xbox-confirms-that-game-pass-leads-to-decline-in-sales\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:55:00","slug":"xbox-confirms-that-game-pass-leads-to-decline-in-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/xbox-confirms-that-game-pass-leads-to-decline-in-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Confirms That Game Pass Leads To \u2018Decline\u2019 In Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As Microsoft continues its <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-activision-xbox-merger-timeline-call-of-duty-1850108022\">year-long journey to consume Activision Blizzard King<\/a>, we keep learning more and more about the inner workings of the various corporations involved. And today, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-call-duty-game-pass-1850087709\">UK Competition and Markets Authority<\/a>\u2019s provisional report on the deal, we learned that when games are added to Xbox\u2019s Game\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/xbox-game-pass-sales-decline-cma-report-activision-deal-1850109961\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Microsoft continues its year-long journey to consume Activision Blizzard King, we keep learning more and more about the inner workings of the various corporations involved. 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