Ubisoft + – Ubisoft’s subscription service – may be offered as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass.
The rumor has been bubbling for a few days now – I first saw it before Christmas – but at the time it was not substantiated by any notable sources and was loosely grouped into a larger collection of speculative Xbox “rumors”.
Now Jez Corden, editor of Windows Central, has acknowledged that the rumor ‘has a strong chance to be true on the basis of things’ [they’d] audience “, which Ubisoft believes will enter the service by the end of 2021.
“I’ve seen rumors about Ubisoft Uplay + joining Xbox Game Pass Ultimate,” Corden recently tweeted (thanks, ONMSFT.com). ‘I think it’s a great chance to be true, based on things I’ve heard.
“I can imagine it would be a safe or a smaller piece of older games, but crazy things happened,” they added. ‘I always thought EA Play would be an extra level of Game Pass, but they just turned that bad boy inside. Guess we’ll see. ‘
I imagine it would be a safe or a smaller piece of older games, but crazy things happened. I always thought EA Play would be an extra level of Game Pass, but they just turned that bad boy inside. I think we see.30 December 2020
Like EA’s EA Play, Ubisoft + offers players unlimited access to a large library of new and old Ubisoft games, though Ubisoft + also includes access to new versions on the first day. The monthly subscription currently costs $ 14.99 / £ 12.99.
At the moment, we can only take the news exactly what it is – a rumor – and even if it is true, the reports indicate that the partnership will come later rather than earlier, according to reports somewhere around holiday 2021.
EA Play joined the console version of Xbox Game Pass in time for the launch of Xbox X Series and Xbox Series S. EA Play is also expected to join Xbox Game Pass on PC in December, but Microsoft now says it needs more time “to ensure a wonderful experience for allEA Play’s arrival on Xbox Game Pass for PC is now some time in 2021 and Microsoft says they will have more information to share early next year.
In related news, Jim Ryan, Sony, recently hinted at this PlayStation Can Respond to Xbox Game Pass in the works. Speaking to the press earlier this month, Ryan asked how Sony intends to respond to Microsoft’s Game Pass initiative and replied, “There’s actually news coming, but just not today. We have PlayStation Now we have subscription service, and it is available in a number of markets. ‘
In October, we learn that more than 15 million people are now signing up for Xbox Game Pass. That was 50 percent in just about five months as the service only surpassed 10 million subscribers in April. In the same press release, Microsoft announced the new figure for Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers where it announced that it was Bethesda parent company ZeniMax.
With the announcement that future Bethesda titles coming on the first day after Xbox Game Pass, including Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, and the rollout of next-generation systems, the growth of Xbox Game Pass is unlikely to begin to slow down now.
Here is our selection of the best Xbox Game Pass games.