Right, and could you time it any worse. Announce the ROG Xbox Ally, sells out of preorders with Gamepass as its main selling point then increase Gamepass Ultimate.
This is crazy. I am a huge Xbox fan. Been an Xbox gamers since the early days of the 360 and play it consistently but I am starting to feel like Microsoft is starting to sabotage the Xbox while trying to get as much money as possible from people in the mean time. Between raising prices of their consoles instead of a cheaper mid gen version; and now raising Gamepass prices like this it is hard to be supportive of the Xbox brand at this time.
Is this MS way of saying we F'd up, Gamepass Ultimate is not sustainable. If you look at all 3 Tiers, Essential and Premium are a lot better than the previous iterations including PC and Cloud gaming. Ultimate with its Day 1 releases may not be as sustainable as MS wanted us to believe so they hiked the price. Basically pay more for the Day 1s and be sustainable or take a less expensive model and buy the games Day 1 you want. Maybe Sony was right and their Subscription model was the best ...