It’s official, Microsoft is abandoning Xbox Live Gold and announcing Xbox Game Pass Core, a new formula that is significantly more interesting and still suitable for small budgets.
Were you connected to Xbox Live? Tanpis, the green brand, has decided to completely overhaul its formula and change its name swiftly. The goal, of course, is to make everything more coherent, but also to narrow the line between the average Xbox user and Xbox Game Pass subscription. Everyone will find lunch on their doorstep, but what is certain is that Xbox is installing its ecosystem more than ever to make it completely homogeneous.
What is Xbox Game Pass Core?
After all, the Xbox Game Pass Core is neither more nor less than an enhanced Xbox Live Gold or, if you will, a mini-game pass. It still allows you to play multiplayer games and still gets access to exclusive promotional offers like with gold, but as a bonus, this time you have access to a small library of games without paying a penny more than your subscription. Basically, everything will be available on the Xbox Series and One consoles, as multiplayer play on PC doesn’t require a subscription.
Game Pass Core date and price
New Xbox Game Pass Core will be released on next September 14th and will be available on Xbox Series and Xbox One. If you still have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription at this point, it will automatically convert to a new subscription without you having to do anything.
Contrary to what was leaked, the The Xbox Game Pass Core may not cost $9.99, but it will $6.99 per month like the current Xbox Live Gold. A price that now places Xbox just below PlayStation but still above Nintendo. The other Game Pass formulas don’t move an iota. Depending on your platform, you will always be charged between $10 and $11 for the basic formula and $15 for the Ultimate version.
- PlayStation Plus Essential: $8.99
- Xbox Game Pass Core: $6.99
- Nintendo Online: $3.99
What is Xbox Live Gold and Games with Gold?
After more than 20 years of good and faithful service, the term Xbox Live is finally saying goodbye. Now it’s over, the subscription no longer exists and the term becomes a relic of the past. From now on, the company will be banking everything on Game Pass to retain its customers. As for Games With Gold, it’s the same. From now on, you will no longer be entitled to a few free games a month, but everything will happen in the new catalogue, which will be filled little by little, and above all the games will change over the coming months and years .
All Xbox Game Pass Core games at launch
When it was released, that was Xbox Game Pass Core offers no less than 25 Xbox Series and One games. These will be playable at no additional cost and for an unlimited duration. Microsoft has already released the full list of Xbox games that will be available at the launch of the new subscription offering. There are very big games, such as more or less popular independent titles. There is something for every taste.
- Between us
- descenders
- dishonored 2
- Eternal Destiny
- fable anniversary
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 76
- Forza Horizon 4
- gears 5
- Grounded
- Halo 5: Sentinels
- Halo Wars 2
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- man falls flat
- Inside
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- psychonauts 2
- state of decay 2
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited
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