Enlarge / While still “over 100 Games,” the selection on Xbox Games Pass is set to get a bit smaller next month.
Microsoft’s $10 per month Xbox Games Pass subscription service will be seeing the first significant reduction in its game library at the end of May. That’s when 21 available titles—primarily backward-compatible Xbox 360 games—will be rotating out of the service.
Microsoft has been adding seven to ten games to Games Pass every month since its launch last June, bringing the total number of Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles subscribers can download to over 170. Only a small handful of previously available titles have been removed during that run, including WWE 2K17, NBA 2K17, and Metal Gear Solid V.
Industry watchers (including yours truly) have been referring to Games Pass as a “Netflix for Games” since before its launch. But this is the first real sign that the service will mimic Netflix’s practice of regularly cycling movies and TV shows in and out of its selection month to month. The end of May will represent exactly one year since Games Pass’ full launch, suggesting that expiring year-long licensing agreements with third-party publishers could be behind the latest reductions.
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Source: Ars Technica – Download and play these Xbox Games Pass titles while you still can