Home Xbox, Xbox Game Sharing & Understanding How It Works: What's Smashin Webshow

On This Episode of What's Smashin I talk about how home Xbox works and how you can use it to game share with another console. I 've been on Xbox for around 15 years and I used to have the family plan which was amazing! Now I'm stuck to only being able for one of my kids to play my games and not forced to purchase two of everything or another Xbox Live just for my kid. I try to break it down in the simplist form while giving ideal situations in which I would use this method to share with others besides just my child.

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[KalHal]

This is THE best video at explaining this setting and giving great examples. I watched like 3 other vidoes before this one and they did such a pood job at 1) explaining the setup and 2) giving examples as to why this is useful. Thank you!

[Kinggaming]

So will my friend have to redownload the games or will they already be downloaded so he can play it right away

[Osmiblox]

Watching this video saved me 60 bucks and having to purchase a whole new subscription.
You definitely earned a new sub. Keep up the good work, brother! 👍

[thegman]

Thanks for this. This makes sense! I did it backwards for my son’s Xbox. Also you could also set up a pin so you can hide credit card info

[eppy_on_gfuel]

So the person with the games makes the Xbox they use their home Xbox with your account on it?

[CAVEMAN-cwfp]

yo so my cousin shared his gamepass ultimate with me n now i can play his gamepass games, but can i download and play any of his purchased games that are not included with gamepass and can he play any of my games i purchased outside of gamepass as well, my account is set to 'home xbox' on his xbox and his account his set to "home xbox" on my xbox, should be able share any gamepass or non gamepass games as long as we are sharing via "home xbox" rite?

[WillieCarpenter]

I just got an Xbox series S and I got it for traveling, but my wife and daughter use gold to stream at the house which one do I need to set as the Xbox so I can still have all my games so I can play and still purchase and download new games on my traveling Xbox somebody please help me

[Infectedfox]

I’ve been doing this for a couple years. It’s not working for me anymore

[Supaaa_novaaa]

I want to game share with a friend but can't get it to work.

I'm logged in to his xbox with the benefits.

I set my account on his xbox to my home xbox.

Next, on my xbox
My friend with the benefits signed in on my xbox

And set his profile to my home xbox.


But still no game share /gold🥲 what am I doing wrong?

Do we need to have the same home xbox on the same console?

I followed instructions how another person explained to set it up so Any help would be appreciated...

[nberluti]

Great video, thanks for explaining! Wanted to ask a question about something I've been encountering.

I have 2 consoles. On my home Xbox, it doesn't allow my kids to play any games unless I'm signed in. It says something like "the owner of this software must sign in."

However, on our 2nd console, they can play anything without me signing in.


Any ideas on why that happens?

[Oscarrrrrr__]

So can I play a game that I downloaded on my Xbox with my friend (who set my account as his home Xbox) at the same time?

[The-H-inADHD]

So I have tried this multiple times and now out of tries for the year but it wouldn't work either way you try to do it, that is making the one without ultimate and even the one that does have it.

[michaelcaplin]

So if someone removes thier profile from my xbox which is set as the home xbox will their owned games instantly be removed from library?

[blackberrymsd]

I have 3 Xbox’s at the moment and will eventually have 5 (Me and my 4 Kids) how do I share my games and Xbox live on all consoles? We would like to play Call of Duty on all consoles at the same time using the one purchased COD and the Xbox live I purchased for my console.

[pantae]

I have an Xbox series x and a Xbox one
I tried to play MW3 on series x while my kid plays Roblox on Xbox one but it won’t let me. It says someone has to quit game and we can’t play simultaneously. How can this be fixed ?

[timwentz]

So I have an ultimate account and so does my son we recently bougt a game on his account if we game share can we both play that game at the same time online with each other from two different consoles

[BOBBY-xdwd]

Hey bro. Can you help me understand. I'm the who has the ultimate gamepass and two of my brothers they don't have. Both of my brothers they have their own xbox. My own xbox I will not make my home xbox because It's my access. But my 2 brothers can they make my account as their home xbox to their own consoles? Does it count as 2 switches? Appreciate if you answer 🙌🏽

[StueeyB]

Hey, can this only be done betwen 2 xboxes? We are lucky enough to have 3 in our household, what's the best way of doing 3?

[zigjr]

Hey smash - about a month ago my sons Xbox cannot sign in while i am online playing. We have 3 Xboxes in the house and my sons is marked as the home xbox. Any suggestions

[aqualinestorma]

will this work in different countries like say im in canida and he is in the USA?