"All they did with Game Pass was have gamers who would have paid way more to play their games pay way less to play them. And Microsoft ate it." Stratechery's @benthompson explains how XBOX's Game Pass strategy led to a financial disaster for the console: "No publisher wants to partake in this. They make all their money upfront by selling games to their biggest fans." "So they went out and started buying a bunch of developers. Bethesda, etc. But the issue with buying these companies is, what…