Microsoft Is Reportedly Exploring the Option to Combine Its PC and Xbox Game Pass Services to Entice More Subscribers

[Peter_Brosdahl]

According to some industry insiders. it's possible that we may see a new Game Pass subscription that combines Xbox and PC into one service.

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[Uvilla]

I thought it was the one service. Thats silly (to be 2 things).

 

[Stoly]

According to some industry insiders. it's possible that we may see a new Game Pass subscription that combines Xbox and PC into one service.

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You mean an even more expensive Game Pass.

 

[Brian_B]

I thought it was the one service. Thats silly (to be 2 things).

Game Pass options have always been a mixed bag of crappy options.. unless you just fork over for Ultimate whatever.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

You mean an even more expensive Game Pass.

Sad but likely true, at least that's what I was thinking but it's always nice to be wrong on these type of guesses.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I thought it was the one service. Thats silly (to be 2 things).

Lol, I had to remind myself of this when doing this post. I don't use it and had forgotten they were different.

 

[MadMummy76]

If a company needs to be failing before implementing consumer friendly features then it deserves to fail. Why are these companies unable to learn from Steam?

Instead of copying the model they'd rather destroy it thinking then all gamers would just flock to them. Like EGS. But if steam was yanked out of existence tomorrow most users would just go back to pirating and not use their service.

 

[kcthebrewer]

Game Pass options have always been a mixed bag of crappy options.. unless you just fork over for Ultimate whatever.

PC Game Pass is $16.49/m and includes day 1 games. It is still the best deal in gaming (if you play multiple games).

From the article - MS is going to screw over PC Game Pass and force PC users to get Ultimate to get day 1 games essentially doubling their monthly cost.

How they think this will help them gain users/money boggles my mind.

The only way they would gain users is to add PC and day 1 to Premium (currently $14.99/m) but in no world do I see them doing that.

EDIT --- MS hides PC only Game Pass when you sign up for a reason. It's a drop down below the default 3 tiers.