Ubisoft+ will soon be on Xbox — what you need to know

Ubisoft+ will shortly be on Xbox — what you need to know

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Ubisoft+, which lets players download and play more than 100 Ubisoft titles, will soon make its style to Xbox consoles. That'southward smashing news for fans of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Splinter Cell and almost a dozen other popular series. However, it won't exist part of Xbox Game Pass, which means players volition have to pay a carve up subscription fee and probably navigate the selection through a different interface. That'due south arguably bad news for existing Game Pass subscribers.

Information comes directly from Ubisoft, which announced the news in a web log post entitled "Ubisoft+ Coming To Xbox And Rainbow Six Extraction Launching On Xbox Game Pass." (Y'all have to give the company credit for being straightforward, if nothing else.) Just as the title suggests, Ubisoft+ will be available on Xbox sometime in the near-ish time to come; Rainbow Six Extraction will exist on Xbox Game Pass when information technology debuts on Jan 20.

Unfortunately, Ubisoft didn't provide many details nearly when and how Ubisoft+ will be available on Xbox, save to say that information technology "will exist coming to Xbox in the future." Like its PC counterpart, Ubisoft+ on Xbox volition let players admission more than than 100 titles for a unmarried monthly price (currently $15 per month), which includes all relevant DLC and cosmetic items.

What nosotros don't know is whether Ubisoft+ on Xbox volition be a download service or a streaming service — or both, as Xbox Game Laissez passer currently is. Nosotros don't know how much it will cost, exactly what the game library will be or whether there will be any additional Xbox Game Pass overlap. It's worth noting that we also don't know whether it volition work on last-gen Xbox One consoles, or merely current-gen Xbox Serial X and Xbox Series S consoles.

On the Rainbow Half dozen side of things, the situation is a little clearer. Rainbow Six Extraction will debut on Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Laissez passer and Xbox Game Laissez passer Ultimate on Jan. twenty, which is also when the game will launch on other platforms. The game supports cooperative cantankerous-play, so Xbox and PC gamers tin can play together. The game itself is a multiplayer 3rd-person shooter, which requires players to band together against increasingly difficult sci-fi foes, upgrading their characters as they go.

Regardless of how Ubisoft+ ultimately works on Xbox Game Laissez passer, it's interesting to note that Ubisoft'southward approach hither stands in stark contrast to that of its competitor, Electronic Arts. EA Play is available as role of Xbox Game Pass, at no extra price to gamers, letting players access games such as Star Wars Squadrons and Knockout City on both Xbox and PC. Ubisoft+ will obviously require a separate subscription, and it's not hard to run into how another $xv-per-month gaming subscription might experience a fiddling superfluous.

In any case, Tom'due south Guide will effort out Ubisoft+ once it's bachelor on Xbox consoles. In the concurrently, you lot can try it on PC or via Amazon Luna if you want to come across how it works at nowadays.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site'south coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and engineering. After hours, you can detect him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.