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Is it worthy securing your rank astatine this price?
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate's terms precocious changeable up a tremendous 50% successful the US, up from $19.99 to $29.99 per month. That's an other $120 per year, and a lot of other currency you request to find successful bid to support what utilized to beryllium the champion woody successful gaming around. Yeesh!
If you privation to bushed the terms hike, your champion enactment is to stack your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate rank to its bounds (36 months) portion the alteration isn't yet enforced. Or... cancel your subscription altogether. I'm not your boss.
But, it's worthy noting that Amazon has precocious updated its Game Pass pricing and adjacent dropped it alternatively of the expected terms hike. It's presently 5% disconnected and down to $56.99 for 3 months of Game Pass Ultimate. Holy smokes!
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Amazon besides inactive has one-month codes disposable for $19.99, which is present efficaciously a $10 discount.
But you tin besides acquisition three-month codes astatine a amended rate, $56.99 each ($3 disconnected the aged pricing, and a important simplification versus the caller $89.99 pricing).
The max you tin capable retired your relationship with is 12, which successful the US costs $683.88 successful full ($227.96 per year). Now that's a lot, and I'm ne'er going to urge you abruptly ammunition retired astir $700 connected a subscription service, surely not successful this economy. But it's inactive worthy being honorable astir the numbers and however overmuch it does outgo to debar a terms hike by paying upfront portion you can.
Comparatively, astatine the caller $29.99/mo rate, 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate volition present outgo $1,079.64.
By buying successful present (i.e. paying up to $683.88 to stack codes), you tin prevention up to $395.76 (effectively implicit other twelvemonth covered), yet it's improbable immoderate of america volition privation to wage truthful overmuch for a work that's conscionable wacked its prices up (again, and past again).
If anything, this is conscionable bully to cognize if you privation to screen yourself for adjacent conscionable the adjacent 12 months, paying $227.96 alternatively of $359.88.
Xbox Game Pass Tier and Price Changes, October 2025:
- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: $29.99 a month, up from $19.99 a month
- Xbox Game Pass Premium: $14.99 a month, the aforesaid arsenic the aged Standard subscription
- Xbox Game Pass Essential: $9.99 a month, the aforesaid arsenic the aged Core subscription
- PC Game Pass: $16.49 a month, up from $11.99
The updated pricing goes into effect today, October 1 for caller subscribers, and November 4 for existent subscribers. As portion of the announcement, Microsoft added much than 45 caller games to Game Pass. Check retired the afloat database here.
GameStop has besides announced that it volition not summation the terms of Game Pass, but it is not unsocial as, alongside Amazon, different large US retailers similar Best Buy, Target, and Walmart are besides yet to lucifer Microsoft's latest hike.
Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.
Originally posted:
Oct 10, 2025 3:57 pm
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