Combination of Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass will cost 13 euros per month

Microsoft has announced Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a combination of its current Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. The combination costs 13 euros per month. The subscription will be available later this year.

Currently, the two subscriptions together cost 17 euros per month if they are taken out separately. That is the price without any discounts. In the Benelux, Xbox Live Gold costs 7 euros per month and Xbox Game Pass 10 euros per month.

Xbox Live Gold is the subscription that players with an Xbox console need if they want to play multiplayer games online. Xbox Game Pass is a subscription that gives access to a collection of games. Today, Microsoft releases all of its first party games directly through that service. It is not a streaming service, games must be installed on the hard drive of the console.

Microsoft will immediately start a test with the subscription. A number of members of the Xbox Insider community are invited to participate. Microsoft isn’t yet saying when the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription will be available to everyone, but that will be sometime later this year.

The subscription comes to all markets where Xbox Game Pass is offered; that means it will also be released in the Benelux. At the same time, Microsoft announced the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. That is a variant of the Xbox One S, but without a disc tray.