


It used to kind of make sense when Xbox Live Gold was a separate service and was included as a bonus for Game Pass users subscribing to Ultimate, and this model was mirrored by PlayStation with its disbanding of its Game Pass Console-esque PlayStation Now into the new tiered PlayStation Plus, which acts more Like Game Pass Ultimate.

Xbox Game Pass Core costs a mere dollar less for players to subscribe to the Console tier of Xbox Game Pass, which doesn't include online multiplayer but comes with significantly more games. In principle, the whole idea is kind of dumb and feels like an easy way to milk some more money out of the gaming community, but an infographic on Xbox's official site that explains the new Game Pass Core tier makes it more painfully obvious than it was before.
