No, the Game Pass limitation is for _streaming_ the games. You can play and download as much as you want.

New Xbox cost is not confirmed.

hereonout2 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not a big gamer but unlimited cloud gaming seemed too good to be true to me. It was a self defeating product offering for Microsoft.

It works perfectly on a fast home connection over ethernet, mind blowing how responsive it is and load times are non existent.

But as far as I can tell most people subscribe to game pass anyway? Why buy the hardware at all when I can just cloud game in the same subscription. .

	▲	teamonkey 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I suspect if the threat of AI cloning pans out as some say, we may see a sharp return to streaming - perhaps devs releasing on streaming platforms only - as an ultimate form of anti-piracy

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whizzter 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Series/S costs 1000 Euros and Series/X costs about 1700 right now so it'll likely be even higher unless ram prices finally crash.

	▲	djray 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At least here in the UK, that's off by a lot. Here, Series S is £400-£430 for 512GB or £500-£520 for 1TB. Xbox Series X is £600-£620 for digital 1TB or £50 more for the disc version. That's much more than I paid for mine a year after launch (£450 I think), but luckily still nowhere near 1700 Euros.

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MistyMountain a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Might not be confirmed but it was part of an article that MS approved of. They appear to be testing the waters.