Microsoft unveiled a new type of Gamepass plan at this year's E3 which includes Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass all-in-one. The name of the new subscription is Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and you can currently buy a month from Microsoft for $1 which will also convert your active subscription of Live and Game Pass over to Ultimate.

Now, how do you get this cheaper? Your Ultimate plan converts Live and Game Pass days to Ultimate days. For example:

• You currently have 6 months remaining of Xbox Live.
• You purchase the $1 of Game Pass Ultimate. It upgrades your live into ultimate.
• You now have 7 months of Ultimate (1 + 6 you originally had)

This can be abused!

If before converting your account into an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate account you add a bunch of extra Xbox live time, that will convert 1:1 into ultimate access. Currently, a 12 month card for Live is $60 USD. A year of Game Pass Ultimate is around $180. That is a savings of $120 a year! Microsoft allows you to convert up to 3 years of active subscription time into Ultimate time which means if you buy 3 12 month cards, you save $360 on game pass ultimate and will have it until this time in 2022.

So, here's the links you need.

• Buy Game Pass Ultimate for $1 (The last step, after adding your live / game pass time cards)
• Buy Xbox Live 12 Months (Amazon Affiliate Link - purchases made with the link support Out of Cards)
  • Amazon appears to be out of stock as of writing for digital codes.
  • Do note this promotion expires either on June 30 or July 4 so unless you can get physical codes mailed to you before June 30 to play it safe, don't buy through Amazon.
• Buy Xbox Live 3/6/12 Months (Microsoft)

I'm kinda happy I've got it for the next 2 years, though 3 would have been awesome.