News business Xbox: Game Pass, a threat to the future of Xbox Live Gold?
It’s been over four years since Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service launched. Currently, this service is very popular with users and is gradually overshadowing the Xbox Live Gold service.
A year ago, journalist Jeff Grubb announced, based on Halo Infinite’s free multiplayer, that the Xbox Live Gold service could close its doors sooner or later. Today he repeats his words on his show, as reported to us VGC
Selon Jeff Grubb, Xbox Live Gold’s survival would depend on the success of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Because at the moment the Redmond company is trying to develop its service and give it a certain stability before thinking about the future of Xbox Live Gold.
However, this decision can take some time according to the VentureBeat reporter. If things move forward with the arrival of many AAA games in Game Pass and players are looking a little more ahead of the offer catalog Microsoft is setting a course, a threshold that must first be reached before the Xbox Live Gold issue is put on the table
Nevertheless, according to the journalist, Xbox would be approaching 23 million members of the Xbox Game Pass program but would like to double that
As a reminder Microsoft already offers an Ultimate plan that includes Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold subscription.which tends to bring the services together and possibly lead to a new compromise for the manufacturer.
But that the players are reassured Xbox Live Gold is still dashing and should continue to offer them discounts as well as free games, on Xbox 360, and availableif you have an active subscription to Xbox Series X | S and Xbox One, for quite a while!
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