Call of Duty games coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one lasted all of two releases as Microsoft announces big changes and a welcome price cut
Date:
Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:11:01 +0000
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Xbox is decreasing the cost of Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, though it comes at the cost of day one Call of Duty games.
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Xbox Game is about to get cheaper and change a little Game Pass Ultimate will drop to $22.99 a month, while PC Game Pass cost $13.99 This comes after Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said the service had "become too expensive" in a leaked memo Xbox has announced that it is cutting the price of its Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass services, and that it will no longer offer new Call of Duty
games at launch.
As detailed in a brief Xbox Wire blog post, Game Pass Ultimate will drop from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, while PC Game Pass will now cost $13.99 rather than $16.49.
New Call of Duty games will also only become available "about a year" after they release. Call of Duty titles which are already on the service, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and its follow-up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 , will continue to be accessible. Article continues below You may like 'Game Pass
has become too expensive for players' says leaked memo as Xbox CEO plans to 'evolve' the service The Premium and PC Xbox Game Pass tiers are rumored to
be merging Ex-PlayStation boss says Microsoft is 'trying so hard to will'
Xbox Game Pass 'into health' and suggests 'a clarifying post mortem would do the entire industry some good' (Image credit: Activision) The news comes from a leaked internal memo that revealed that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma thought Game Pass had "become too expensive for players" and wanted to "evolve" the service. "We need a better value equation," she said. Although Game Pass is about to get cheaper, these new prices are still higher than they were this time last year. The price of Game Pass went up across all subscription tiers in October 2025, with Ultimate rising to $29.99 / 22.99 per month, up from $19.99 / 14.99 per month.
The company also stopped offering a 12-month package, which gave buyers the plan at a slightly cheaper cost.
The Verge reported that one of the reasons for that price hike was the move towards including Call of Duty on the service day one - a practice that presumably decreased valuable launch sales. Get daily insight, inspiration
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