Playing games between two X Boxes under the same account

Hi MichaelGarnham1

I'm afraid not. You can sign in to two consoles at the same time, but you won't be able to play games using the same profile.

If you have games or subscriptions on your account you want to share with other gamers in your home, this can be done by using the home console option. But they need to use a separate Xbox profile.

Designate a home Xbox | Xbox Support

Hope that helps.

The Xbox One WILL allow for used games. You WILL be able to share your games with your family on the same console or if they're under a family account AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE. You will still need to purchase a new game if they aren't on the same console
or under a family account, however. Look at it this way, though: Currently, you can't take a game disc & put it into 2 separate consoles at the same time. It's the same concept, but done in a different way.

If this is the case, X Box One is dead to me. I currently can take my game from the X Box signed into my account in the living room, give it to my girlfriend to play in the bedroom under her account, then switch to the X Box in the guest room under any one
of my accounts, and finally give the game to my friend for a couple weeks so he can play under his account. Seeing as there is only one disk we will not all be playing at eh same time, but it is MY game to do as I please. Under the posted guidelines I am merely
"renting" the game purchased and have no rights to the content contained on the disk. I'll pass.

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Peace, J.R.

Ok thanks

We are getting a notification on the x box saying two cannot be played on at same time

They play fortnite and want to do duos one upstairs one on downstairs one but it won’t allow them to use x boxes at same time

Hi! My name is Ben an Independent Advisor and hope you are doing well.

With regards to your concern, may I ask if you are playing the game via Xbox console or is this for a Minecraft PC, mobile version?

For Xbox, if you own the Xbox version of Minecraft you have the option to share the game to all users on the same Xbox via Home Xbox feature. Once you set a console as the Home Xbox, the game license will be shared to all users so you won't need to buy the game for the other account.

More details about the home Xbox can be found at https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-ne...

In addition to this, if you are not sure what email address is associated to your gamertag you can visit https://account.microsoft.com/profile page to manage your email address. You will then find here what is the email alias, then you may check what gamertag it is associated via https://account.xbox.com/profile page.

I hope the information helps, looking forward to hearing back from you so we can further assist if you need more help.

Kind regards,

Ben

Hello there @JeffHughes9, I hope everything is going well!

Thank you for reaching Microsoft Xbox Forum support. Sharing is caring right! Normally when you home share a console using your account, both parties should be able to benefit from the games and subscriptions of the account. What seems to be the issue in
your case is the fact that you are both trying to use the same account at the same time. Since playing with the same account in different consoles at the same time is impossible, the way to achieve your request would be to mark your console as a home console
by your son's account, and then once the console is set as a home console, log in with your own separate account to play the game. You will find below the official link to everything you need to know about home sharing in case you were curious about other
aspects of the feature. To set your console as a home console, sign in with your son's account and you can follow the steps provided in the link below on the "Designate an Xbox console as your home console" option.

The link: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console/my-home-xbox

Since you will be needing a separate account for yourself, you will find below the official website to create one.

The link: Microsoft account | Home

I wish you a lovely day, and I hope this helps you out! All the best!

Kind Regards

Stay safe, and happy gaming!

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