This November, the whole family can gather around their Xbox 360 consoles and avail of the various Xbox Live offerings such as games, social entertainment and movies. The month will offer a new Xbox Live Gold Family Pack that comprises of up to four individual Gold memberships which can be acquired for the price of two regular Gold subscriptions.
The new Xbox Live Gold Family Pack brings additional conveniences and services to the forefront such as Family Center via Xbox dashboard and Xbox.com as well as the purchasing ability and complete access to activity monitoring reports. Through the upcoming offering, Microsoft Points can even be brought and presented to other Xbox Live Gold Family Pack members. Easy billing can be availed of where the purchase charges goes to the primary account holder’s account. This helps in managing the overall entertainment budget of the family more efficiently.
November will also bear witness to better integrated Xbox 360 Family Settings. Through the password protected Family Programming option, all mature content is erased from the dashboard. The terrain will also provide intelligent default settings for child, teen and adult profiles. Default privacy and activity settings will automatically be assigned for each member. These however can later be individually customized. Family Settings can be viewed on the MyXbox channel and offer current tools such as the Family Timer.
Four individual Xbox Live Gold memberships are being offered at just 99.99 USD (approx. Rs. 4,653). The Family Pack is ideal for families to exploit the upcoming Kinect for Xbox 360 titles. Games, music and movies can even be streamed from Zune while the whole family can enjoy the latest sporting event through ESPN on Xbox Live.