2 xboxes and 1 game pass help required

philstanbridge · 23 May 2019 at 18:45

Hi guys, I've got an xbox one X and an Xbox One S. Both have separate accounts for my sons. One has a game pass and the other doesnt. I know you can share the game pass so that both machines can play the same games without having to pay twice but I can't get it to work. I've followed a couple of vids showing me what to do, but I must be doing something wrong or not understanding it fully. I've been meaning to sort this for some time. Any help greatly appreciated!

philstanbridge · 23 May 2019 at 22:10

Sorry.. I still don't follow. Okay each other gamers tag - is that the username? I'm doing this without looking at the xbox so bear with me. So basically this:

Xbox one S logged in as son 1
Xbox one X logged in as son 2

Xbox one S login as son 2
Xbox one X login as son 1

When you say that gamer tag, do you mean both, or one or what? As fas as I know they are already set as home xboxs.. It's confusing

philstanbridge · 24 May 2019 at 07:48

Right thanks so much will try this now

philstanbridge · 24 May 2019 at 15:40

Oh is that how it works then? I was under the impression you could play anything without having to login as the master user?

philstanbridge · 25 May 2019 at 17:17

I think it’s finally working although I wish there was some obvious system label to tell me if they are shared. Little quality of life improvement. It turns out I had the wrong Xbox set to home which prevented the sharing from working. Then I had another little worry when we couldn’t share a game. Turns out it was installed on a separate hard drive and I had to copy it over on to the other Xbox before it would work.

So tentatively, thanks very much for all your help.