Earlier this year, whispers of an Xbox Game Pass family plan began bouncing all over the internet. It turns out those reports were dead-on, and testing has already started in certain countries.
The plan allows people to share Game Pass Ultimate services with friends or family across cloud, console, and PC platforms. Four people can be under one subscription, like how Spotify or Disney+ handles group sharing. Only with, you know, hundreds of video games at everyone’s fingertips.
“Starting today in Colombia and Ireland, Xbox Insiders can begin to preview a plan that allows multiple people to share Game Pass Ultimate benefits,” Tyler Mittleider, senior technical program manager at Microsoft, said via Xbox Wire.
Xbox Insiders in Columbia & Ireland can test a new Game Pass offering that allows them to add up to 4 people to share Game Pass Ultimate benefits, starting todayhttps://t.co/h1qWpzqylJ pic.twitter.com/hkmaLwEVo5
— Nibel (@Nibellion) August 4, 2022
It’s not publicly available for everyone yet, hence ‘testing’ — but the global rollout can’t be too far off. Microsoft is ironing out several known issues, such as invite errors and upgrading service account troubles. The Xbox Insiders Subreddit is currently reporting all of these hiccups and more.
Perhaps the most exciting note regarding the Xbox Game Pass family plan is you can share it with almost anymore. The only limitation is that they must live in the same country as whoever owns an account. Pretty standard restriction for this sort of thing, though.
There is not any pricing information regarding this plan yet, unfortunately.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
