There was a lot of discussion late last year when it was rumoured that Ubisoft+ could join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at some point in the future, and those rumours don't appear to be going away anytime soon.
Windows Central's Jez Corden stated the rumour had "a strong chance of being true" at the time, and now GamesBeat's Jeff Grubb (via GamesBeat Decides) has also suggested that Microsoft is "trying to make that happen," and that he thinks the goal is to bring the Ubisoft+ service to Xbox Game Pass, rather than just select Ubisoft games.
"I think it's Ubisoft+, yes. I think it's that part. I'm not for sure, but that's my understanding, is that they're trying to make that happen.
What that looks like, if they're adding another $5 thing into [Xbox Game Pass] Ultimate or if there's going to be tiers to get all these things involved, I honestly don't know - that is me speculating. But, I do think they are trying to figure out a way to bring Ubisoft+ in. I think that'd be a pretty big deal."
For the uninitiated, Ubisoft+ is a subscription service that is currently exclusive to PC, functioning similarly to Xbox Game Pass and EA Play in that it provides access to over 100 games for a single monthly fee.
Obviously it remains to be seen whether this will come to fruition, and how Microsoft would even integrate this service into the console version of Game Pass, but it definitely sounds like something could be happening behind the scenes.
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If it leads to an increase in Gamepass' price, NO.
There aren't enough Ubisoft games I'm interested in to pay more for - If they go to a tiered system, I'm highly unlikely to change my tier to include Ubisoft+
I don't exactly understand the issue here. Isn't it Microsoft's goal to keep increasing the amount of games on Game Pass? Hence why they bought ZeniMax and added 20 Bethesda titles the other week. Or all the first-party titles that will eventually be added in the future. At some point the pricing for GP will eventually increase, whether it's voluntarily (offering different tiers) or involuntarily (simply raising existing price). Granted I think it's too early to be increasing the price of GP, but if Microsoft keeps adding more and more games then we will eventually reach a threshold where a price increase is inevitable.
Also, a €5 increase for 100+ more Ubisoft games is absolutely insane. You'd be paying €20 for access to 450 games each month, which is crazy value, especially if you include titles like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising. I'm definitely not gonna say no to that.
This will be huge as Ubisoft makes my favorite games ever. I will forever be in favor of this deal going through!!!
I don't like Ubisoft games (mostly open world games riddled with fetch quests, collecting meaningless stuff and more repetetive than an undertaker'a job) so I don't care about Ubisoft+. If it means a price hike then I hope they come up with a price plan/tier that allows gamers not to pay for Ubisoft+ if/when it becomes part of GP.
With ea access and ubisoft plus the price of gamepass ultimate is definitely going to increase
I think doing select Ubisoft titles and not increasing prices is a better idea. on the other hand I don't think after Ubisoft there is much left. Take Two/Konami/Sony/Activision are the other publishers left and I don't see them running their own subscription service anytime soon. So if you have Ubi/EA/XGS/Bethesda all under GPU that is pretty much it. Job is done and finished.
@LtSarge If memory serves, U+ includes all new releases on day 1 like gamepass.
That'd be insane of an offer. Here have every Xbox, Bethesda, and Ubisoft game as they come out
@abe_hikura and how much does U+ cost now?
If it includes all new releases day one then it sounds good even if there is a very small price increase as I’m a big Ubisoft fan.
If it is like EA Play, older games then ok but no price increase please.
This rumor is why I have held off on buying any ubi games lately... I want to see if they eventually come to gamepass. On top of that gamepass still has plenty of games I want to play but haven’t gotten to yet so I can stick with this wait and see approach for a while before running out of things to play.
Gimme gimme! I'll take it in the service. I know that MS has to pay to bring them in but they will also have a lot of hard data from the success of EA Play and what benefits it brought them... likely on a larger install base by that time. I don't know if they will have to increase the price as a result. I do imagine they will increase the cost at some point as it's a crazy value but it's also a loss leader to get people in. As all the metrics have shown gamepass user's actually spend more money on games so i wouldn't be expecting a massive $ hike per month. Maybe $1.50 in a year or two? If they do make more tiers they will be lower value than Ultimate... super mega ultimate+ doesn't have a marketing pull to it.
Reboot Ghost recon advanced warfighter and give us Splinter Cell.. Then I'm all for this
U+ is actually not exclusive to PC, Stadia also is included in this (US at least). That means U+ subscribers get access to Ubi games on Stadia for free.
I'll be very surprised if they don't.
Instead of expanding game pass internally, I would like them to expand externally and add game pass for Switch but I know it won't happen, not in Nintendo's interest to let in external company to their playground
@BrilliantBill There are more. I find it funny that you included Konami, who seem to be exiting the video game bussiness alltogether, while neglecting to mention japanese giants like Capcom and Square Enix. Or even Sega.
That would be insane if they got Ubisoft+
I looked at EA Games content after it was added to Xbox Ultimate and was interested in some of the games on offer but tbh, having to login to two apps pissed me off so much I am currently ignoring it. Being presented with some of the games when browsing as playable only when purchased pissed me off even more. They need to separate subbed content from retail like Microsoft does with their storefront. If they intend to increase sub fees due to adding these less than optimal services, I will unsub. Offering tiered sub options would be wiser.
No fee increase, just more content. Classic streaming content move that generates more interest & users. Then when it hits X amount of users at a certain threshold, they bump it uo $1-2/month and make tens of millions of dollars
Video streaming services have already been ruined by this type of system.
Price increase is coming - one way or the other. In Europe it's currently 12.99 a month, and I can see MS trying to do the deal with Ubi to get all of U+ (including day and date releases) for €15 / $15 a month. Ubi probably resisting as that's a bit of a crapfest for their current subscribers, but can't imagine there are too many of those considering how expensive they have it.
If Game Pass price increases it's because of a new tier. There are two tiers currently.
If it's Uplay+, which is all Ubisoft games day one, then it will have to be as an added tier I think.
So MS could keep the basic price as is, and offer Uplay+ as an add-on for maybe £/$5 extra a month.
@Stezimov is that a PC thing? On my xbox i just have all the EA Games available to download without having to sign into any other apps...it's all under gamepass.
Only some of the games available are on PC gamepass. Lots more through the app.
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