Why Xbox Game Pass is still not the Netflix of gaming

Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Decoder! This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break from what I can only describe as a pretty bleak news cycle. So I’m filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity to switch gears a little bit from the political apocalypse beat and talk about something completely different.

So today we’re diving into the video game industry and discussing a particular set of thorny problems facing Microsoft and its Xbox…