playing a game on a second xbox console in the home

The Game Pass Ultimate subscription would only affect Game Pass games. Digital games can be shared. Disc games can be shared, but not the same way and require that the disc be in the console in order to play the game. The console has to be able to check
that you have a license to use the game. That's what the disc provides. So since his console is all digital, he would not be able to use the disc to prove he owns the game.

Thx for coming back so quickly - so the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership makes no difference? The rule of thumb is one game per console? No sharing-right?

Hello he would need to make a digital purchase of that game to play on other console.

Hey Panda,

Yes you would need to play it on the Home Xbox. Your subscription and game will not share over to the second Xbox. It's not really a matter of it being installed into the second Xbox but rather who owns the game or subscription and since the second Xbox
is not the home Xbox of the account that owns the subscription or game then you will not be able to play online on the second Xbox. Only the account that owns the game and subscription will be able to play online on both Xbox's since that account owns the
items and the Home Console set up is not required for that account, because ownership stands with that account.

You would need to make the second Xbox the Home console in order to play online on that Xbox, but accounts can only have one Home Console, so it would remove your first Xbox as the Home Console and would affect the accounts on that Xbox from being able to
play online or play games. I suggest looking over our article on setting up the Home Xbox that I linked before as it has more explanations on how the game and subscription sharing works.

You do not have to be signed into the home console for the profiles on that box to be able to use your Live Gold features and play the digital games on your account.

But if the profile on the second console wants to play online and your games then you have to be signed into that console with your Profile.

We have this setup at my house. The main issue that it causes is when my son wants to play on our "second" console and I'm playing something on the home console. He would have to log me into the second console and that logs me out of the home console.


Usually My Kids will play games on the Home console and I'll play on the Second one.