There is no doubt that Microsoft’s subscription service, Xbox Game Pass, has given a lot to talk about for various reasons, such as its success, games, operation and similarity with other services on the market. Turns out now, an Xbox exec has said that “Xbox Game Pass feels like navigating Blockbuster”, referring to this old store that rented movies and video games, transferring a certain energy of what this practice was in the past.
Through an interview with ScreenRant, an Xbox exec known as Chris Charla, spoke about what Xbox Game Pass experience means to him, and how it resembles something we already knew. In the interview, he details that the energy you feel browsing Game Pass games is the same energy you feel when visiting these stores, where you could live the emotion when seeing each game in the showcases.
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During the interview, Chris Charla detailed (translated): “The only thing I can compare it to, and this is an old comparison, because I’m an older person, is when you used to go to video stores and rent videos. You could also rent video games, I went to a Blockbuster in the US and rented an NES game for the weekend. I think Game Pass has some of that energy, and I think it’s been a great way for people to find their next favorite game. But when I look at it from a developer’s point of view, I think it’s been a fantastic way to find the perfect audience for a game.”
Undoubtedly, incredible and heartfelt words from Chris Charla, which for all of us who have met and ever visited a Blockbuster store (older people) will understand the excitement of visiting and choosing a game to play for a couple of days. Honestly, that will no longer exist, but the feeling that Xbox Game Pass has left and leaves is very comparable to that time.