The Game Pass Price Drop: Why Xbox is Lowering Prices
XoneBros: Positive Xbox and Game Pass Community
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Episode #599: Xbox just did the unthinkable: they cut the price of Game Pass Ultimate. In an industry where almost every single service is hiking prices, Microsoft is moving in the opposite direction, resetting the subscription ceiling for the entire gaming community. This shift represents a fundamental change in strategy under new leadership, prioritizing accessibility and growth over immediate extraction. We break down why this "subscription reset" is the most player-friendly move we've seen in years and how it changes the landscape for the rest of the industry.
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| 0:00.0 | The The |
| 0:23.6 | The I'm I'm I'm |
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| 0:41.3 | I'm Welcome everybody to the X-1 Bros. This is your positive gaming in an Xbox community. We are back. It's been another fun week, another crazy week. |
| 1:13.5 | Asha Sharma, by the way. |
| 1:14.6 | We talk about her every week, it seems like, because she's a leader that has come in, that has taken over for Xbox, and is moving the ball forward at break-neck speed, making changes left and right, coming in breaking uh, and making sure, hey, if this is not working for us, why are we doing this? So she's made good changes. She's made some good changes. We're back, we're back to a good Xbox logo in my opinion. But wait a minute. I was told because she's not a gamer, this would fail. Yeah, yeah, interesting. |
| 1:44.7 | I was told by the internet because she's not a gamer. I actually think so she removed call |
| 1:48.9 | of duty from Game Pass. That's the big news. Game Pass is cheaper now. And made Game Pass cheaper |
| 1:53.7 | at 2299. Can I, can I share with you my roller coaster of emotions? Uh, yes, but first can I, can I |
| 2:00.1 | explain to you why I think her not being a gamer actually is a benefit in this situation? And I told this to you earlier in the week. Yeah, no. No, I would not like to hear that. Well, I'm going to tell you anyway. So I think she made, she would, I think us, I think the three of us would never made that call. and I think it's the right call to make. And the reason the three of us wouldn't have made that calls were gamers and we're like, |
| 2:21.3 | well, |
| 2:21.5 | you can't. think us, I think the three of us would have never made that call. And I think it's the right call to make. |
| 2:18.7 | And the reason the three of us wouldn't have made that calls were gamers and we're like, |
| 2:21.3 | well, you can't remove call of duty. In fact, we talked about it last week. Well, what do you do if you remove call of duty? Because there's this like mystique. I was against it. Yeah, there's a mystique around it. The mystique also is that they have one of the largest audiences of any video game in the world. |
| 2:35.6 | So how could you do that? |
| 2:37.0 | But her being outside. They had the mystique also is that they have one of the largest audiences of any video game in the world. |
| 2:35.8 | So how could you do that? |
| 2:36.8 | But her being outside of gaming, none of that matters. |
| 2:39.4 | All she looked at was hard numbers. |
| 2:40.7 | And the hard number that she looked at is, did we lose more subscribers? |
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