Game Pass Improvements
Xbox Game Pass is a pretty neat idea. For the price of $9.99 a month, you get access to a library of over 100 Xbox One and Xbox 360 games to download and play at your leisure. It’s essentially Netflix but for video games, only on Xbox One. And while yet another subscription service may not be all that appealing to some, what Microsoft touted regarding improvements for Game Pass certainly make it a more enticing service.
First and foremost was the announcement of some pretty major third-party Xbox One titles hitting the service. Fallout 4, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Tom Clancy’s The Division, and The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited are all available to play right now and signpost Microsoft’s commitment to providing a comprehensive service for its players. There’s literally hundreds of hours of content in just those four games, and if Microsoft continues to bring major third-party titles to the service, its value for money will only continue to get better and better for us players.
It’s not just great new games that Microsoft announced for Game Pass, though. It’s improving the tech that’s running it all, too. FastStart was announced for Game Pass, which, according to Xbox Game Pass Head of Engineering, Ashley Speicher, allows players to begin playing games from the service twice as fast as currently possible. The tech is being rolled out for some games later this month, but its full release has yet to be seen.
Still, with Microsoft spending time and effort to make sure that Xbox Game Pass has great games and is a fantastic user experience, by 2019, this could be offering an unparalleled level of value for money.