No More Robots founder Mike Rose has revealed that downhill freeriding game Descenders continues to go from strength-to-strength on Xbox Game Pass, now approaching nearly 3 million total players via the service.
That means around 20% of all Xbox Game Pass subscribers have downloaded the title at some point, and a massive 500,000 of those players have tried the game in the past three months alone.
"Game Pass continues to be a beast for Descenders. We've had more than 500,000 new players on Game Pass just in the last 3 months alone, and now approaching 3 million total."
This isn't the first time Rose has sung the praises of Xbox Game Pass for Descenders, commenting back in June that it has been "incredible", and the game's total sales have tripled since it first joined the service.
The company also recently signed a deal to keep Descenders on Game Pass, so it'll be sticking around for a while!
Have you played Descenders with Xbox Game Pass yet? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Gamepass is proving to be a gamechanger.
“There was a graph that I saw… That Xbox was showing around internally. They showed me this graph and they were showing the power of Game Pass and using Descenders as one of the examples,” revealed No More Robots CEO Mike Rose. “The graph that they had done they had to alter the graph, because the spike was so good from when we went into Game Pass that it made it look like we had sold nothing before that point.”
https://mspoweruser.com/mike-rose-descenders-xbox-game-pass-interview/
I actually downloaded this game the other week - found it a bit difficult to get the hang of at first, but once I did I couldn't put it down.
I was actually thinking about trying the game out myself! I have been curious about it for a long time, and it reminds of Downhill Domination.
I literally just downloaded this yesterday. Can't wait to play it!
So glad to hear that Game Pass is great for developers!
^^^ Looks like someone literally joined 2m ago from Pushsquare and posted the first comment. 😂
Anytime any of the big three can lend their super power to an indie, it makes me happy. Indie devs will be important going into this more expensive next gen landscape.
@mousieone agree. I'll give this game a go as everything I'm hearing about it is good. I like that gamepass let's smaller games be great, don't have to be a massive game to be a great game. Plus like I've said many times i wouldn't ever have tried these games if i had to buy them outright.
Tried this on gamepass last night and found out I'm terrible at these stunt games 😢 but I will keep on trying as I liked the game
@Senua
Gamepass is immensely popular atm and people like me who haven't played a lot of games that are on gamepass are trying out all these different games, kinda like demos to me until I find a good one to stick with, so this would pump the games figures up but doesn't necessarily mean those 3 million people are playing this game properly.
Also got to try gamepass for a £1 which is an absolute bargain but makes me wonder how many people who sign up to gamepass keep their subscription after the £1 month? I would like to see figures for this as a lot of people who just get teh £1 month as its too cheap to refuse and then not bother when the price goes up.
Finally that picture you posted is either wrong or old as all European countries have the ps5 as number 1 amazon bestsellers
@Valhalla91 This is official and no it isn’t.
Get your facts straight, 🦄s always wrong again.
Literally all websites crashed/unavailable in seconds from start due to unprecedented pre-order booking demand. That’s the reality DEAL WITH IT!
@Senua I'm not trying to start an argument, I literally just checked the different amazon's and the ps5 is top best seller. Go check for yourself if you don't believe me
Go check amazon UK where the series X is 5th behind the dualsense controller and headset
The ps5 had extra stock tiday and sold out everywhere within an hour, let's face it both the ps5 and series X will both sell out like crazy this year and both sell through all of their first few shipments
@Valhalla91 well at the moment there is 15 million subscribers which is like a 50% increase from March, so. I’m sure there was a slight lose from the PC amount going up but the EA and Doom Eternal announcement probably helped there.
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