- Microsoft has announced major changes coming to Xbox Game Pass
- An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate -Subscription NOW costs $ 29.99 / £ 22.99
- It comes along with a new premium level and additional benefits
Microsoft has revealed sweeping changes coming to Xbox Game Pass, with three upgraded plans and a massive price increase for ultimate subscribers.
The Xbox Game Pass Core is now known as the Xbox Game Pass Essential and offers subscribers the chance to jump into unlimited cloud games beyond the existing ability to play multiplayer titles.
The modest game library included in Tier is now also available to those on PC. Subscribers will also be able to take advantage of up to $ 25 per Years in store points by playing games with the rewards of the Xbox program.
The price of this level remains the same at $ 9.99 / £ 6.99 per Month, so it’s only good news if it’s your favorite level.
A new Xbox Game Pass Premium level replaces the old Xbox Game Pass standard and also retains its current price tag at $ 14.99 / £ 10.99 per Month.
As with Essential, the new Premium level has unlimited Sky games and a massive library with more than 200 games that can be played on both Xbox and PC.
The service also provides access to new Xbox-released games within a year of launch, although it is significant, this does not include new Call of Duty titles.
Premium members will be able to take advantage of up to $ 50 per year. Years in store points by also playing games with the reward with the Xbox program.
Things only start to look bad when you examine the new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. It now includes a Fortnite crew membership (offers the game’s Battle Pass, 1,000 V-Bucks per month, plus a few bonus skin) and Ubisoft+ classics such as Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.
Subscribers also get day one access to larger upcoming games that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7At Ninja Gaiden 4and The outer worlds 2, Next to a library with more than 400 games.
Cloud Gaming also gets a big upgrade on Ultimate, with the shortest waiting times and solutions up to 1440p. On top of this, subscribers will be able to earn up to $ 100 per day. Years in store points by playing games with the rewards of the Xbox program.
Unfortunately, all this comes at a massively increased price.
An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription now costs a full $ 29.99 / £ 22.99 a month, up from $ 19.99 / £ 14.99 – Ouch.
Worse is that we do not see any annual subscription option in the Xbox store – so it doesn’t seem like you can save by buying 12 months at once. However, we have reached Microsoft to ask if this will be an option.
All in all, this means that an Xbox Series S now goes for a recently increased price of $ 379.99, and a year of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ($ 359.88) costs a total of $ 739.87 in the US – about $ 10 less than $ 749 PlayStation 5 Pro!
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