“We're enhancing the mobile app experience”
Xbox's September 2024 upgrade is rather a big deal, with functions like video game upgrade preloads coming as a useful brand-new function for the next console upgrade. As part of today's news, Microsoft has actually likewise revealed that it prepares to shut down the Xbox Game Pass mobile app.
Beginning in November 2024, when brand-new downloads of the Game Pass app will no longer be possible, Microsoft will be “enhancing the mobile app experience”. As an outcome, Xbox Game Pass app functions, such as library surfing and subscription management, will move over to the primary Xbox mobile app.
“Key functions– like the capability to check out Game Pass and handle your subscription– will now be discovered in one location with the Xbox app on mobile. You'll have the ability to search the complete Game Pass brochure to discover your preferred video games and remain in the loop with signals for brand-new video games pertaining to the service.
If you're a Game Pass Ultimate member, you'll likewise have the ability to see and declare your Perks. As part of these modifications, we will no longer support brand-new downloads of the Xbox Game Pass app, beginning in November.”
As long as Microsoft effectively squeezes all of these Game Pass includes into the Xbox mobile app, we believe this is a great relocation – it definitely makes things less complicated for the basic user. It maybe marks less of a Game Pass focus over on mobile, however still, we do not truly believe Microsoft required 2 different apps for the service – as long as all of the appropriate functions quickly appear in the primary Xbox app.
If you ‘d like to learn more about the basic September upgrade, do take a look at our current story on that down below.
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[source news.xbox.com]
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox video game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben invests his time listening to music that's far too old for him, viewing football on the telly and most likely consuming someplace.
