

Microsoft prides itself on being a good value to consumers, even it comes at a potential cost to it with forgone sales on Game Pass titles. Otherwise, these tiers feel illogical with the blatant goal of herding as many people into Ultimate as possible because buying Core and Console separately makes little sense (though can get a year of Core for half price, $60 total, making the price essentially the same). It feels like Core maybe shouldn’t even exist at all, and online is just rolled up into Console, with Ultimate still attractive with other bonuses should people want that. You also get access to Xbox's Cloud Gaming service to stream games on mobile devices, PC and Xbox consoles, EA Play and Xbox Live Gold.While this has always been a problem with Gold’s existence, it’s even more visible now that they’re all under one Game Pass banner. It is also available as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which includes over 400 Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and original Xbox games.


The PC version of the service is exclusive to gamers running Windows 10 or Windows 11. You just need to download the ones on offer and play as much as you like - as if you bought the game outright yourself. The list of games is curated and updated each month, with some added and some less popular titles being removed. PC Game Pass is a monthly subscription service that offers a library of full games to download and play on your machine without any further fees. Here then is everything you need to know about PC Game Pass. And, if you own a PC as well as an Xbox, you can get both, along with Cloud Gaming and other benefits, for a single monthly payment too. Thankfully, PC gamers also have their own version - PC Game Pass.
