Ubisoft + – Ubisoft’s subscription service – can be offered as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass.
The rumor has been bubbling up for a few days – I saw it for the first time before Christmas – but, at the time, it had not been proven by any notable source and was grouped into a larger collection of speculative Xbox “rumors”.
Now, however, the editor of Windows Central, Jez Corden, has acknowledged that the rumor “has a great chance of being true based on things [they’d] heard “, which states that Ubisoft will enter service in late 2021.
“I saw rumors about Ubisoft Uplay + joining Xbox Game Pass Ultimate,” Corden recently tweeted (thanks, ONMSFT.com) “I think this has a good chance of being true, based on things I heard.
“I imagine it would be a safe or a smaller slice of old games, but more crazy things have happened,” they added. “I always thought EA Play would be an extra level of Game Pass, but they just brought that bad boy. I think we’ll see.”
I imagine it would be a safe or a smaller slice of old games, but crazier things happened. I always thought EA Play would be an extra layer of Game Pass, but they just brought that bad boy. I think we’ll see.December 30, 2020
Like EA Play from EA, Ubisoft + offers players unlimited access to a large library of new and old Ubisoft games, although Ubisoft + also includes first day access to new releases. The monthly subscription currently costs $ 14.99 / £ 12.99.
At the moment, we can only accept the news precisely what it is – a rumor – and, even if it is true, reports suggest that the partnership will come later rather than sooner, supposedly around the 2021 holiday.
EA Play joined the console version of the Xbox Game Pass in time for the launch of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. EA Play is also expected to join the Xbox Game Pass on PC in December, but Microsoft now says it needs more time “to ensure a great experience for everyone“EA Play’s arrival on the Xbox Game Pass for PC is scheduled for 2021 and Microsoft says it will have more information to share early next year.
In related news, Jim Ryan of Sony recently hinted that The PlayStation may have a response to the Xbox Game Pass at work. Speaking to the press earlier this month, Ryan was asked how Sony plans to respond to Microsoft’s Game Pass initiative and replied: “Actually, there is news to come, but not today. We have PlayStation Now, which is our service subscription, which is available in several markets. “
In October, we heard that more than 15 million people now subscribe to the Xbox Game Pass. This increased by 50 percent in just about five months, as the service only exceeded 10 million subscribers in April. Microsoft released the new number for Xbox Game Pass subscribers in the same press release in which it announced the acquisition of ZeniMax, Bethesda’s parent company.
With the announcement that future Bethesda titles will arrive on the Xbox Game Pass on the first day, Including Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, and with the launch of its next generation systems, the growth of the Xbox Game Pass is unlikely to start slowing down now.
Here are our choices of best Xbox Game Pass games.