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DeeeeeJ

Hi guys
Really struggling here.
I have a new Xbox Series X. I have given my son my old Xbox One.
My Xbox Series X obviously has Game Pass Ultimate including the Xbox Live.
This has a fair few downloaded games from Gamepass, and most importantly to my son Fortnite.
I have my Series X set as the home console. His console is in his bedroom but won’t let him play Fortnite. It says there is a problem with signing in or live.
He has his own log in, own email and own Gamertag.
What am I doing wrong?

DeeeeeJ

ThanosReXXX

@DeeeeeJ These should help. It's explanations for the Xbox One, but it should work exactly the same on Series X:

EDIT:
Found the explanation for Series S/X:

Edited on by ThanosReXXX

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Xbox Gamertag: ThanosReXXX

Gipsons

@DeeeeeJ I think that You have to set Your sons xbox as home xbox.
I bought series s for myself and have my xbox one s for my Kids now. Set their one s as home xbox.
Only weird thing that happened to me Two days ago was that I log in on my series S and I couldnt start the game, it kept saying that the person Who bought the game has to log in. Although it was my main account and I play and buy games only from this account. So it didnt make any sense. It happened Two days in a row. After testing network connection on settings it allowed me to play game. It happened exactly 30 days after I set UP my second xbox. It didnt happen for the whole previous month.

Gipsons

DeeeeeJ

This was the issue.

I had read it as it needed to be the main Xbox (ie mine) that had to be the home xbox.

Changed it to his and it’s worked (although did need a hard reset)

Cheers @Gipsons

DeeeeeJ

ThanosReXXX

@DeeeeeJ So... that's basically the solution that I had already posted, which you seem to have missed/overlooked...

All kidding aside, it's a bit more nuanced than what you think: you actually need BOTH consoles to be set as home console, you only need to log out of the second one, and then they still retain access to all the software that's shared on there, as explained in the links that I posted in the second comment.

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Xbox Gamertag: ThanosReXXX

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