No, this is not PS+. On Xbox you have Games With Gold (the thing PS+ is a copy of). You get 2 free Xbox One games a month and two free Xbox 360 games a month. The 360 games are always back compat games, so all 4 can be played on Xbox One.Both Games With Gold (GwG) and PS+ offerings are "permanent" once they have been offered, as long as you keep your Gold or PS+ subscription active. You "bought" the games and can continue to play that game as long as you have your gold/PS membership active. THe exception to that is the 360 games which you actually permanently own with no strings attached.
The Xbox Game Pass is different. It is like Netflix. You pay your monthly subscription and you can play whatever games are in the catalog (a lot more games than offered to Gold/PS+ members). If a game is taken out of the catalog you can no longer play it (much different than the GwG or PS+ games that you could keep playing after you "bought"). Just like Netflix, when they have movies in their catalog you can watch them, once they take them out of the catalog you'd have to go buy it in a store to watch it, you can't keep watching just because you watched it when they had it.
Also, I think since my last post it was made public that this is $10 a month. So depending on what's in the catalog that could be a pretty darn good deal. Most games are $60 at launch, so for the price of two games a year you have a year long subscription to play whatever you want from the catalog. It will obviously NOT be full of brand new games, but certainly could have some of the big name games from the previous year or earlier in a given year.
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