Xbox All Access subscription is gonna offer you a console, Xbox Live, and Game Pass for a monthly fee. Hail, the future!

The console environment, it certainly is a fucking changing. I mean, right? Look at this shit. Soon, Microsoft is going to begin offering a very cellphone-esque service. For one monthly fee you’ll get a financed Xbox console, Xbox Live, and Game Pass.

Venture Beat:

If you don’t already own an Xbox One, Microsoft is making a bold and aggressive move to get you on board with its new Xbox All Access financing plan (the blog isn’t live yet, but here’s the store link). The publisher confirmed the All Access program in a blog post today. For 24 monthly payments, you will get an Xbox One X or Xbox One S along with Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass for less than you would pay if you purchase and subscribed to all of these Microsoft products separately.

That means you get the console, the online multiplayer service (with its Games With Gold program), and the Netflix-like Game Pass program all for one monthly payment. Game Pass, which lets you download games and play them whenever you want, has already established a reputation as an excellent value — especially compared to Sony’s streaming PlayStation Now alternative — but Microsoft is now amping up the value perception for all of its major gaming products.

This is the first time a console manufacturer has tried something like a major first-party financing plan in the United States, and it could find major success since so many people are used to paying monthly for things like their phones, video services, and more.

“For no upfront cost and one low monthly price for 24 months, Xbox All Access gets you a new Xbox One S or Xbox One X, access to more than 100 great games through Xbox Game Pass, and online multiplayer with Xbox Live Gold,” Xbox product marketing boss Bogdan Bilan said. “That’s more than 100 all-you-can-play games — including highly-anticipated new Xbox One exclusives the day they’re released, plus more games added all the time on the fastest, most reliable gaming network and an Xbox One console.”

The Xbox One S plan starts at $22 per month, and the Xbox One X plan starts at $35. This is not a leasing program. Instead, it works a lot like how we purchase smartphones from T-Mobile or other major carriers. That monthly payment covers the cost of the Xbox One, which belongs to you. And then the rest of the money pays for the services.

But unlike those phone plans, Xbox All Access is actually less expensive than purchasing an Xbox One outright and then subscribing to Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass for two years.