TL;DR: Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass faces challenges due to its high cost and devaluation of new games, impacting upfront sales and profitability. Plans for a cheaper tier may not resolve these issues.

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It’s been six months since the great Game Pass price hike of late 2025. The one that saw Ultimate leap to a staggering $29.99 a month. For me, and a vocal contingent of the Xbox faithful, that was the ...

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New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the price of Game Pass is going back down, but it will cost day one Call of Duty launches.

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

Let’s get the numbers out of the way first, because they’re genuinely compelling. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has dropped from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, while PC Game Pass now costs $13.99 instead of ...

When Microsoft announced a revamped tier system for Xbox Game Pass in October 2025, it unleashed a whole lot of grumbling about what was once fondly regarded as “the best deal in games.” The service’s ...

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