Published , by Brittany Vincent
Published , by Brittany Vincent
It looks like Microsoft could be working to combine its Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass offerings into one monthly subscription.
According to The Verge (sourced by Twitter user and "leaker" h0x0d), a new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription might be in the works. It would combine both services for $14.99 a month, and would likely surface alongside Microsoft's rumored disc-less Xbox One S All-Digital edition later this month.
Combining subscriptions like this would end up helping users looking to save money by taking the monthly price down around $5 from the $19.98 subscription price of both services. It wouldn't help much in the scheme of things, but all these expenses do add up, and bringing the two offerings together makes a lot of sense.
The disc-less Xbox One S would obviously require both Xbox Live and Xbox Game Pass if you were to make the most of it, after all, but in the end when you think about it like that, you're not even really saving that much money off the Xbox in the first place, in addition to screwing yourself out of being able to use it to play movies or older games on disc that aren't available digitally.
This wouldn't be the first time Xbox tried bundling services together, as it launched a limited-time bundle Xbox All Access subscription that brought a leased Xbox One X, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass together for $34.99 a month. Clearly this is something Microsoft has been looking into doing for some time, but we're not sure if or when this will take effect.
Stay tuned to Shacknews for additional updates.