Amazon Has Quietly Dropped Game Pass Prices Again, and It Might Be Your Last Chance to Lock In This Discount

$54.99, down from $59.99, mightiness not look similar overmuch of a deal, but erstwhile you excavation a small closer, you'll realise however important specified a terms driblet truly is.

A fewer dollars disconnected mightiness not dependable similar much, but erstwhile you’re stacking codes similar this, it adds up quickly, particularly erstwhile compared to the caller prices Microsoft is present enforcing. Under the caller rate, 3 months of Game Pass Ultimate would outgo $89.97. So conscionable for starters, that's a $35 redeeming astir immediately.

To instrumentality things 1 measurement further, let's besides sermon stacking. Stacking is wherever you bargain up respective codes and past repeatedly adhd them to your relationship to "stack" up your rank times. The max you tin bash this for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is 36 months.

So astatine the caller complaint ($29.99/mo), you'd beryllium paying $1,079.64. Yikes! But, with the discount astatine Amazon, this full ends up astatine a much respectable, $659.88 for the afloat 3 years. In total, you tin prevention up to $419.76, which is implicit an other twelvemonth of Game Pass covered.

Even conscionable covering yourself for the adjacent year, with 4 $54.99 codes (totalling $219.96), could beryllium a large move. This is remarkably amended compared to $359.88 connected the caller program ($29.99/mo for 12-months).

Xbox Game Pass Wave 1 October 2025 Lineup

Microsoft has besides precocious made its archetypal Xbox Game Pass lineup announcement since the arguable Ultimate terms hike, revealing the archetypal question of games subscribers tin expect implicit October 2025.

This icnludes Double Fine’s Keeper, and the Xbox Game Studios’ published Ninja Gaiden 4.

• October 8: Supermarket Simulator (Cloud, Console, and PC) Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• October 9: Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Editions (PC) Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• October 14: The Casting of Frank Stone (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• October 15: Ball x Pit (Cloud, Console, and PC) Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• October 15: The Grinch: Christmas Adventures (Cloud, Console, and PC) Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• October 15: Eternal Strands (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) Now with Game Pass Premium
• October 15: He Is Coming (Game Preview) (PC) Now with Game Pass Premium
• October 15: Ninja Gaiden 2 Black (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) Now with Game Pass Premium
• October 16: Pax Dei (PC) Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• October 17: Keeper (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• October 21: Evil West (Cloud, Console, and PC) Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• October 21: Ninja Gaiden 4 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

Here’s Where Game Pass Stands After October’s Pricing Update

The caller pricing represents a 50% summation successful the US, with Game Pass Ultimate jumping from $19.99 to $29.99 per month. That’s an other $120 a twelvemonth for what utilized to beryllium gaming’s champion deal.

• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: $29.99/month (up from $19.99)
• Xbox Game Pass Premium: $14.99/month (replaces Standard)
• Xbox Game Pass Essential: $9.99/month (replaces Core)
• PC Game Pass: $16.49/month (up from $11.99)

As I've mentioned, if you privation to dodge the higher prices, your champion enactment is to stockpile up to 36 months of Ultimate earlier the caller rates instrumentality afloat effect astatine retailers similar Amazon. Or you could simply cancel your subscription wholly if you’ve had enough.

Meanwhile, GameStop says it won’t rise its Game Pass prices for now, and Best Buy, Target, and Walmart person besides yet to lucifer Microsoft’s latest hike. So if you’ve been readying to renew, now’s astir apt the infinitesimal to bash it earlier everyone other catches up.

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 15, 2025 8:02 am