

If you do cancel, the games downloaded via Game Pass will be locked until you resume your subscription but you won't lose any save data. Like all Game Pass subscriptions, Ultimate is month-to-month with no lock-in contract so you're free to cancel at any time. Microsoft is offering a deal that gets you your first month of Game Pass Ultimate for $1, after which you will continue to pay $15.95 per month. Ultimate subscribers will also get all the associated perks with Xbox Live Gold, such as Deals with Gold (regular discounts) and Games with Gold (free monthly games). All up, that's about $28.90 per month of value for $15.95 per month. It also includes EA Play, another games subscription service that usually costs $6.99 per month. Xbox Live Gold is required to play a lot of games online and will typically cost you $10.95 per month alone. It gets you everything included in both the Console and PC Game Pass tiers with Xbox Live Gold and EA Play included. Console prices are increasing in Europe and elsewhere, though for now, the cost of the Xbox Series X|S remains the same as when the consoles first released.The best value option is the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. The news comes a few months after PlayStation raised the price of its consoles in countries outside the United States, after which Xbox said it wouldn’t be raising the price of its products – for the time being.

“These Game Pass price adjustments are not related to the Activision Blizzard deal, and are intended to match local market conditions.” “We’ve held on our prices for consoles for many years and have adjusted the prices to reflect the competitive conditions in each market,” Kari Perez, Xbox’s head of communications, told The Verge. This increase marks the first time Xbox has raised the price of its subscription service since the platform launched in 2017. The console Game Pass price will increase from $9.99 to $10.99, while console ultimate subscribers will be paying $16.99 instead of $14.99. The price change goes into effect on July 6, 2023, for anyone who isn’t a Game Pass subscriber, while current subscribers will start paying more on Aug. Microsoft announced an increase in the Xbox Game Pass price for console and ultimate subscribers (thanks, The Verge ).
