Multiple Xbox' at one address and one family

Mike Bijl · Oct 26, 2020

Hi,

I'm in the happy situation to be an owner of a Xbox One X and I'm exited for the pre-order of the Xbox Series X.

But now I'm in dubio for how to organise this in my house. Can anyone advise me how to set this up, I'm not unwilling to pay but I'd like to do it in the most economic way .

Situations will be:

1. The Series X will come in the living room at the 65" tv.

2. The One X will come in the master bedroom in which I have my office too.

3. I (father of 2 gaming daughters) have a GamePass subscription

At this moment my daughters can game happily on the One X and can play all my purchases without me joining their session.

Now I'd like to achieve the following:

- My daughters should be able to game on both Xbox'. So they don't occupy the TV in the livingroom when the parent want to watch.

- If we play together (online multiplayers like Fortnite/Destiny 2) I don't want to be forced back to my old One X.

The situations I already considered are:

a. I make the living room Xbox the family Xbox.

Then my daughters can game in the living room like it is now. But then I'm forced to play on the One X because there is no Xbox Live Gold/Gamepass attached to the One X. Is this right?

b. I make the master bedroom One X the family Xbox.

The kids are forced to play on the One X, that's not too bad, but the master bedroom is also my office nowadays. So not preferable unless I move the Xbox to a better location in the house. But can they still play splitscreen on the
Series X with Borderlands 3 for instance? Given the fact that they don't have any subscription on the Series X. The downside at this is that they won't be able to play on the Series X with their friends. Is this right?

c. I buy a additional Xbox Live Gold subscription for one of my daughters and make the second Xbox my daughters family Xbox.

Are they still able to play games from my Gamepass Subscription that I installed on that device? Downside is that I have to pay for an additional subscription, but that is acceptable when they can play my games from Gamepass

d. The last and definitely working solution is to pay for an extra Gamepass subscription for one of my daughters.

Economically this is the least preferred solution.

Can anyone please advise me?

:)

wi7bit

Hi Mike Bijl

This is a question that gets asked a lot in this forum and this is how I would do it:

Make your new Series X console your home console in the living room. Then you or your daughters can use it without you needing to be signed in. Then, if you want to watch the TV, your daughters can use the One X in your master bedroom, if you sign in first
(I would recommend you set a pass code). The only downside is that if you all want to play together, then yourself will only be able to use the One X. If you try to use the Series X if you are signed into the One X, you will get booted off.

I know the rules for signing into consoles is changing (i.e. you will be able to sign in to two consoles at one) but I think you will be able to play at the same time. This is more for app usage.

More info can be found here:

https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/family-online-safety/shared-consoles/concurrent-signin

Farscape247

so what if you have a family of kids and multiple xbox ones in the home, sorry but i don't justify buying multiple copies of the same game for one household of my kids.

MostInfantryMan

Also, as I understand it, in order for them to play my downloaded games on their XB1 I would have to set that console as my home console and in turn won't be able to play them on my own console here?

Smwutches

You can play the games on any console you want as long as you are signed in. In order for anyone else to play your games, they have to be on the console you have set as your Home console.

WPAK

Small addition, be aware that you can only be signed in at one console from the same generation at the same time.

Multiple Xbox' at one address and one family