Gears Tactics developer says Xbox Game Pass 'frees up' metrics for success, allows teams to take risks

Gears Tactics is coming soon and ahead of its release, The Coalition talked with Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat about how Xbox Game Pass changes the business model for different teams at Xbox. Mike Crump, Operations Director at The Coalition, had this to say.

We have certain expectations, and we will measure against those in terms of unit sales. But Game Pass just frees us up a little bit from having to be solely reliant on those kinds of metrics for success... But when we're deciding whether to make a game or not. It's nice to have all those different metrics for success and not be tied to just one measure of 'Did you sell a certain number of units at a certain price point or not?' because I think it really allows us to take risks and try things that we wouldn't otherwise.

Xbox marketing general manager Ben Decker also talked about how Microsoft views Game Pass like going to a movie theater, where smaller art house projects and big blockbusters are both shown. You can check out the full interview at VentureBeat.

Gears Tactics is set to release on April 28 for Xbox Game Pass for PC (Beta) and Steam. It's coming to Xbox sometime later this year. For another look at the game, you can check out the launch trailer here.

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