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Most of the changes Microsoft outlined are reserved for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, and so is the price increase. Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions previously cost $19.99 per month, and they'll now run you $29.99 per month. For that price, Microsoft offers: Day-one releases for Xbox-published games
In a briefing with outlet The Verge, Dustin Blackwell (director of gaming and platform communications at Microsoft) talks about the new plan to add "more than 75 day one releases" into Game Pass Ultimate each year. Blackwell mentions this is a "50 percent increase" over what the team was offering last year, which is quite a big leap.