{"id":90320,"date":"2026-09-29T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90320"},"modified":"2026-09-29T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:38:56","slug":"majority-of-gears-of-war-e-day-revenue-on-xbox-will-be-cannibalized-by-game-pass-analyst-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90320","title":{"rendered":"Majority Of Gears Of War: E-Day Revenue On Xbox Will Be Cannibalized By Game Pass, Analyst Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gears of War: E-Day is launching into Xbox Game Pass, and because of that, the majority of the game&#8217;s moneymaking potential will be cannibalized by its inclusion on the service. That&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superhys\/status\/2104954496543523016\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superhys\/status\/2104954496543523016\">according to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics<\/a>, who released a report today that covers this, the game&#8217;s initial sales on Steam, and the possibility of a PlayStation 5 port sometime down the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Elliott, E-Day has surpassed 120,000 copies sold on Steam at this point, generating more than $7 million in revenue. The game arrives on October 6, but people who pay more can jump in starting October 1. For more, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-preload-times-install-size-and-global-launch-dates\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-preload-times-install-size-and-global-launch-dates\/\">official global launch times for E-Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SRFE0gCsgLg  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elliott&#8217;s data showed that E-Day has already sold more than 2X what Halo: Campaign Evolved did over a similar period of time. With 120,000 sales on Steam already, E-Day is unlikely to hit 1 million copies on the platform ever, Elliott said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, he said &#8220;most&#8221; of the revenue from the Xbox version will be &#8220;eaten up by Game Pass. The game&#8217;s inclusion on Game Pass might also encourage some people to sign up, so sales alone do not tell the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gears of War: E-Day is launching into Xbox Game Pass, and because of that, the majority of the game&#8217;s moneymaking potential will be cannibalized by its inclusion on the service. That&#8217;s according to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics, who released a report today that covers this, the game&#8217;s initial sales on Steam, and the possibility&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90323,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90320\/revisions\/90323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}