Xbox Game Pass: A New Tier is Coming

Because Xbox has one already , so theirs no need to change anything.

They just announced a lot of other countries so i dont think they gonna raise it for now.

I got rid of my yearly xbl subscription because it stopped being a value to me. GWG have been terrible for years. I’m really burnt out on monthly subscriptions.

Gamepass Ultimate, as it pays for Gold plus Gamepass ultimate. You save five bucks a month as opposed to paying for both!

Xbox needs to release a 1-year Xbox GamePass option.

We currently have 1 GPU sub accessed by 4 people across 2 consoles and a PC. As long as we can continue doing this, I don't mind if they also add a family deal for those that need it.

Wasn't online free?

I bought my xbox through xbox all access and I'm paying over 2 years, so I don't see the price going up until they stop all access.
So all this talk of needing a price hike is just click bate.
Microsoft can lose money on this for years if it makes them the market leader.
And before you say gamepass will lower the standard of games, I don't see anyone saying the same about movie/TV subscription services, if anything it has made more competition for your money and everyone is winning, as Netflix, Disney and all the other subscription services are making their own exclusive shows to keep you on their service.

Here's the thing. I share Game Pass Ultimate with my brother by making his Xbox my home Xbox and I have the Microsoft store on his laptop signed in on my account. My friend does it with his brother on Game Pass for PC doing the same Microsoft Store trick. Unless you have specifically 5 or more Xboxes (not even just PCs) in your family then it will not be better value to get a family subscription than just 1 or two ultimate subscriptions that is unless you really like cloud streaming in which case you can only have 1 account using one subscription.

Amazon has Xbox Series X.

I don't understand, $10 for Gold, $10 for base GamePass. Just make all Gold, GamePass. Same price, why the issue?

I have 3 xbox in my house. Xbox X xbox S xbox one X. We all play different games online and off at the same time.. Just set the main account xbox to HOME. Not a problem..we log in with our own account name all saved games awards work individually. I don't understand what family account will add we can't do now?

Ultimate has gold included

I've had Game Pass Ultimate since it began since the conversion deal was ridiculous. I have been adding time to it with Microsoft Rewards since. So except for the amazing deal of "topping off" Gold before "converting" to Game Pass Ultimate, I've paid nothing for Game Pass since. My suspicion is with what is being reported, Rewards could see a restructuring (essentially a devaluation) so as we speak I'm off to add another 3 months to game pass with my rewards points.

Raising GP base to $15 to be the only way to include Gold would be a dumbass idea. First Gold is an archaic service. PC doesn't have that requirement; mobile games don't have such a requirement. Only console gamers have it. MS should NOT be thinking about how they can integrate the expense of Gold everywhere in GP and in turn capitalize on a service that long ago has seen its value diminish. Rather MS should be thinking of how to get rid of pay for online Gold service and create a new modern service in its place; a service that better reflects this play anywhere direction MS are attempting within gaming. (see below) That is if Xbox really wants to be a play anywhere platform. You want to see a great uptick in Game Pass subs, drop Gold and watch people move to Xbox for GP and see console sales rise. Secondly such a change makes Gold a requirement when it should be an option for GP. And right now, it is an option. You can buy a tier with Gold included (Ultimate at $15), and one without Gold (GP base). And Brad, believe ir or not most people do not sub to Gold. It is 46% to 48% of Xbox owners that buy into Gold. This holds true for PS+ for Sony as well (at 42% means even less subs for PS+). Last time I checked 48% is not a majority of Xbox owners as you state. And raising GP base to $15 means raising GPU prices (which includes Gold). Believe it or not, pricing elasticity and trying to grow the service will both be severely tested if they try to raise the pricing and reconfigure what a GP base is. Especially when your competitor is providing a tier that with PS+ with downloadable catalog for the same price as the current GP base. And yes, GP has day and date but believe me that selling point is not as strong of selling point as you would think for casuals This especially true with so much that is not included in GP that casuals play. And if if MS is really interested in getting the masses into GP ecosystem (consoles, PC, and streaming endpoints) Gold needs to go the way of the doh-doh. Those billions of people MS/Xbox is trying to sell to are going to wonder why they have to pay for Gold when they don't own a console and why PC gamers playing the same games do not. Furthermore, how is MS going to explain why PC Game Pass is only $10 and Xbox Game Pass becomes $15. Or would Xbox be so foolish as to raise PC GP to $15 too? Again, it just shows what a dumb ass idea it would be. Console gamers are already growing increasingly disgusted by the rules for thee and not PC that MS follows. Currently for me Gold is like Netflix charging me an extra fee for my own internet because I use a LG Oled TV watching Netflix and not charge my brother the fee if because he uses use his PC to watch. Even Sony (not known to be the most consumer friendly when it comes to prying extra money from their customers) hasn't taken this route.

What MS needs to do is drop Gold completely. Then in this play anywhere world MS needs to reexamine what that means to people who will not own a console or a PC to game. If Microsoft really believes there are billions of possible customers that means those people will want more than just GP to play. GP is only a slice of content. They will want to buy and play that content not in GP (or if game leaves the service they can still buy and play it). This type of service would benefit both console and PC gamers as well. In this scenario Gold goes away and MS creates a streaming service that allows people to stream the games they own. This would be similar to how GeForce Now works. $60/yr you can stream from the cloud the games you own. And because Gold is no longer a thing it is removed as a feature/selling point of Ultimate. And in turn MS includes this new service as feature in its place (but you don't need GP to buy into it.) It definitely makes more sense as a service in an ecosystem that isn't just about consoles any longer. I cannot reiterate it enough in this play anywhere world MS is trying to create it makes so little sense to have an archaic service like Gold and how much more sense it is to provide an (optional) stream your own library service.

I have 4 XBox's and i already use Game Pass on all of them. Sure i can't have 2 games open at the same time on 2 Xboxes but i can still atleast play on multiple consoles with one account. I sure hope they don't take that away or force us to buy a family plan.

Why are audio and video of your videos so heavily out of sync this often?