The retailer drops the cost of a 1-year subscription to $50 USD periodically. Looking to load up on Xbox Live Gold at a discount? Keep an eye out for sales at Newegg. Even after the demise of the $1 trial, this 1:1 conversion rate is still in effect (for now). It doesn’t matter the cost of that one month of Game Pass Ultimate. Equally, 36 months of prepaid time transforms into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for a full three years. So if you have three months of Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass (or a combination of the two) on your account, you’ll end up with three months for your Game Pass Ultimate subscription, plus the additional one month from purchasing Game Pass Ultimate. And this generous conversion rate is still working to this day. Any prepaid time up to the maximum of three years got the upgrade. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Back when the service first launched, early adopters discovered a surprising trick: Activating one month of Game Pass Ultimate on an account also converted existing Xbox Live Gold and standard Xbox Game Pass subscriptions to Ultimate (normally $15 per month) at a 1:1 rate. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. But I think there’s a reason Sony is not following suit, and I do wonder how much Microsoft is leaving on the table with this strategy, if they don’t see Game Pass subs surge further in the future.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. It’s certainly a good deal to have access to all Microsoft exclusives for a monthly sub, with bonus PC copies, forever. But the fact remains, Sony and Nintendo are continuing to dominate the hardware and software races currently, limited only by supply, and I just don’t think Xbox Game Pass is making up the difference in the long term, especially once these shortages sort themselves out.

Xbox is a somewhat small part of the trillion dollar megacorp, Microsoft, meaning they can eat potential losses if they need to. No, the two situations are not equivalent exactly. Netflix finally seems to have peaked in the face of increased competition and bloated budgets for original productions. More generally, we may be seeing the overall worm turn against other high profile subscription services.

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