Microsoft lower the price Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Xbox Game Pass for console and PC, and Xbox Live Gold in Chile, Hong Kong and Israel, as reported VentureBeat and VGC. Subscribers will be informed via email this Wednesday, September 29. The cost of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will stay around 9 euros to change in the three territories.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, the subscription that includes Xbox Game Pass for console, Xbox Game Pass for PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming and EA Play on all platforms, costs 12.99 euros per month in Spain. On Chile cost 11,990 Chilean pesos, which has been cut to 7,990 Chilean pesos (8.57 euros at the current exchange rate). In Hong Kong, where they paid $ 119 of the territory, it is lowered to HK $ 79 (8.70). The Israel they paid 55 squeles and now they will pay 40 skeletons (10,67 ).
The price in the other subscriptions will be reduced approximately the same. For example in Chile, the monthly subscription to Xbox Game Pass for PC and Xbox Game Pass for console will cost 5,990 Chilean pesos (6.42 euros), while a month of Xbox Live Gold will cost 6,990 Chilean pesos (7.49).
In June of this year, Liz Hamren, head of experiences and platform at Xbox, announced that the Xbox Game Pass price may be tailored to “financial realities” of the different territories: “We need to innovate to reach more people around the world with our games and services. We are investigating how to introduce new subscription offers para Xbox Game Pass”.
Xbox Game Pass has around 20 million subscribers
In the story dedicated to the price change, journalist Jeff Grubb from VentureBeat says, citing anonymous sources, that Xbox Game Pass currently has “approximately 20 million subscribers”. The figure is far from being enough, again according to the aforementioned medium, for the service to benefit Microsoft. Right now the company is focusing on acquire studios and sign contracts to publish great games in the service to increase the number of users.
This Tuesday, Microsoft announced one of the big titles coming soon to Xbox Game Pass: Marvel’s Avengers, available September 30. It is foreseeable that in the next few hours they will announce the first batch of games for Game Pass next month. Among the last added titles are Sable, Subnautica: Below Zero, Superliminal and Aragami 2, among others.
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