Ark 2 will hit consoles and PC next year. It seems that discrepancy is worth $1 million to Snail Games. PlayStation Plus Essential subs will be able to play it as long as they keep their subscription, meaning (potentially) less sales overall on that platform for the foreseeable. If you're wondering why Microsoft paid less, it's because once the game leaves Game Pass, players will have to pay for it again – even if they have a Game Pass membership. Microsoft, meanwhile, paid slightly less – $2.5 million to feature the game on it on Game Pass for the first half of 2022, and then a further $2.3 million to bring ARK 2 to the service when it launches in 2023. We know that Ark hit PlayStation Plus for members to claim for five weeks between March 1 to April 4, and per the information above, we know that Sony secured the game for $3.5 million in that timeframe. RSouPcAfyZ- AmericanTruckSongs9 OctoTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.

Microsoft paid $2.5 million to keep it on Game Pass for the first half of this year, and $2.3 million to bring ARK 2 to the service when it launches. Sony paid $3.5 million to make ARK: Survival Evolved a March PS Plus game. And it shows a fascinating insight into how much platform holders are paying to feature titles in their monthly line-ups and services. Securities and Exchange Commission by Snail Games USA – who you may recognise as the parent company of Studio Wildcard, the developer behind Ark: Survival Evolved. Over on Twitter, Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach posted a filing with the U.S. But we've never really had a specific figure to attach to Xbox Game Pass – or even Microsoft's subscription service rival, PS Plus. We know Microsoft's Chris Charla has admitted to paying developers and publishers 'hundreds of millions of dollars' in Game Pass license fees since the subscription service first came to our consoles, back in 2017. Deathloop was the most recent high-profile Xbox Game Pass addition.īut that may have raised the question about how much Microsoft spends on games as it adds them to the service. Per figures gleaned from the data, it was revealed that Xbox Game Pass generated $2.9 billion from consoles in 2021 (not including Xbox Game Pass for PC). Earlier this week, we finally got an insight into just how much Microsoft earns from its Xbox Game Pass service thanks to some data coming out of Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (or CADE, if you're fancy).

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