Two Xboxes - One House

SwampFeet678 · Jul 29, 2022

I know this has been covered many times. Ive also tried to deal with this issue many times. Its still not resolved, and its making me not like Microsoft or Xbox too much.
I gave my son my old Xbox One when I got the Series X. I have a subscription to Gold and we cant play two games at once. It always makes us choose who gets to play on what console. It has created a really frustrating environment and has caused unnecessary arguments.
I have tried to deal with this numerous times over the course of two years and nothing has worked.
Ive set my Series X to be the 'home console'. Ive created his own Microsoft account. Nothing works.

Can someone please, PLEASE, for the sake of my sanity tell me how we can BOTH play games at the same time using only one Gold account.

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SwampFeet678

Ill try that again when I get home. I have tried every iteration of switching accounts, setting who's console is 'home'... you name it.
It always makes me choose one console over the other. Whats the point of even having two consoles if you can only play one at a time?

I miss the good old days of just enjoying playing games without accounts, internet access, subscriptions, lagging connections, constantly patching and updating, etc...

Smwutches

You would need to set the Xbox One as your Home in order to share your Gold with your son so he can use his account. Then you can sign in and play on your Series X.

Daft Badger

Actually you didn't have to get him his own gold subscription as you can share gold on the xbox one.

You can find out how & how to set up your home console to allow sharing here
support.xbox.com/.../xbox-live-gold-sharing-features

Daft Badger

Everyone I know who uses the home/gold & game sharing feature use the same router so that shouldn't be an issue.

McVader1678

This is two separate consoles in the same house though. From what I've read and what we experienced when we tried it, we were unable to use my Xbox live when we were logged in on his console unless I logged out of mine and in on his. He could still see my
games but be was unable to use Xbox live. If I signed in on his machine, then mine logged out. No matter what we did it didn't work.

We accomplished what I was looking to do tonight, or at least so far so good. He has to have his own Xbox live as far as I can tell, but then MY Xbox needs to be listed as the home Xbox on his account and then HIS Xbox needs to be the home Xbox on my account.
We seem to be working fine so far. Waiting for an error message or something.

Two Xboxes - One House