The co-founder of Arkane Studios, Raphael Colantonio, has given his verdict on Xbox Game Pass.

Taking to Twitter, the development vet said that Microsoft's subscription service was "unsustainable", going on to say that it was actively "damaging" for the industry. This, Colantonio says, is the "elephant in the room". 

“I think Game Pass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidised by Microsoft's ‘infinite money,’ but at some point reality has to hit," he wrote. 

"I don’t think Game Pass can co-exist with other models, they’ll either kill everyone else, or give up.”

Colantonio continued: "The maths don't work for Game Pass. It only works because Microsoft injects billions into it to make it a good deal for the players... for now." 

The development vet went on to say that Microsoft was still in the user acquisition stage of Game Pass. 

At last official count, Xbox Game Pass boasted 34 million users. 

Colantonio's commends come in the wake of yet another wave of layoffs in Microsoft's games business.