This past summer marked Xbox data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/cloud-gaming” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/cloud-gaming”>Cloud Gaming shedding its beta tag finally, hitting version “1.0.” With that came a barrage of changes.
data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-october-2025-changes” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-october-2025-changes”>Xbox Game Pass Ultimate notoriously picked up a huge price increase around this time, leaping 50% — eliminating years of good will overnight. The price increase overshadowed the fairly major data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/the-latest-xbox-cloud-gaming-upgrades-are-a-revelation” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/the-latest-xbox-cloud-gaming-upgrades-are-a-revelation”>Xbox Cloud Gaming news, which saw access expand beyond data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-game-pass” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-game-pass”>Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. If you’re a cloud-first user, this equated to a price decrease potentially, as cloud gaming was only…