Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is $22.99 a month. That is the US figure Xbox Wire published on April 21, 2026, down from $29.99. PC Game Pass moved the same day from $16.49 to $13.99. I checked the post. Both cuts are in USD, and both say prices may vary by region. I am not converting them into a different country’s number.
The other half of that short note is the part people will skip and then argue about. Future Call of Duty titles do not join Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. They join during the following holiday season, about a year later. Existing Call of Duty games already in the library stay. That is the trade Xbox wrote down in the same paragraph as the cheaper price.
$22.99 Is the New Ultimate Tag
“Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month.” April 21 is the day they used. I am not going to pretend this is a promotional weekend with an expiration they hid in a footnote. The post presents it as the new monthly price. PC Game Pass is the other official cut: $16.49 to $13.99. If your billing page still shows $29.99, the official US answer is $22.99.
Xbox says Ultimate subscribers still get hundreds of games on console and PC, current Call of Duty titles, in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, unlimited Xbox Cloud Gaming, and major day one releases. The day-one promise did not get deleted. Call of Duty is the franchise they pulled out of that promise going forward.
New Call of Duty Waits About a Year
“Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch.” Then the replacement window: “New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later).” I am leaving the parentheses on, because that is how they defined the delay. They did not name the next Call of Duty in that post. I am not going to name one for them.
Current Call of Duty already on the service stays on the service. This note is not a takedown of the Call of Duty games already in the library. It is a change to what happens the next time a new Call of Duty launches. Buy it at launch if you want it at launch. Or wait for the following holiday and let the subscription catch up. Xbox is now saying those are different products.
The Post Is Team Xbox, Not a Leak
The April 21 Xbox Wire item ran under Team Xbox. It is one screen of text, which is usually how you know they mean the price. The closing line is the one they want quoted: “Our players cover a wide breadth of geographies, preferences, and tastes, so while there isn’t a single model that’s best for everyone, this change responds to a lot of feedback we’ve gotten so far. We’ll continue to listen and learn.” That is the official explanation. Feedback, not a spreadsheet they published.
I checked the post again before writing the dollar figures. $22.99 Ultimate. $13.99 PC Game Pass. Future Call of Duty about a year late to the service. Current Call of Duty stays. Major day one releases stay, just not the next Call of Duty. The primary source is the April 21 Xbox Wire update. Watch @Xbox for the North American account. If a billing mail still says $29.99, the official US price Xbox printed on April 21 is $22.99.