Xbox Game Pass Core rumored to replace Gold membership: Price remains the same
Xbox Game Pass Core rumored to replace Gold membership: Price remains the same
Xbox Game Pass Core rumored to replace Gold membership: Price remains the same.
Currently Xbox has two subscription service systems, one is Xbox Live Gold, commonly known as gold membership service, which provides players with the right to connect online, two free games per month, and discounts on some games;
the other is Xbox Game Pass game subscription service, which provides players with a large number of games, which is divided into three plans: Console host version, PC version and Ultimate ultimate version.
According to a number of media sources, Microsoft will incorporate Xbox Live Gold into Xbox Game Pass in the future, and Xbox Live Gold will be renamed Xbox Game Pass Core, the core version.
Xbox Game Pass Core is priced the same as Xbox Live Gold at $9.99 per month/$59.99 per year.
As for membership rights, the Core version will still offer online services and discounts on game purchases, but the monthly free games will be replaced by the Game Pass game library.
According to leaked screenshots, the game library of the Core program will have more than 25 games, including “Among US“, “Doom: Eternal”, “Radiation 76”, “Halo 5”, etc. increase over the next few months. For reference, the game library of the Ultimate plan is more than 300 games.
Existing Xbox Live Gold members will be automatically converted to Xbox Game Pass Core members on September 1, 2023.
At the same time, the monthly free games will also stop on this day, but the monthly games previously received by members will still be available. will remain in the account.
Although this merger looks a lot like the three-level membership system of Sony PlayStation Plus, in fact the Xbox Game Pass set is still different from PlayStation Plus.
For example, the $10.99 Console version can play hundreds of games, but But there is no online online service; the $ 9.99 Core version has online online services, but access to much fewer games; if you want both, you can only choose the $ 16.99 per month Ultimate edition.
