"All-Digital" Xbox One With No Disc Drive Leaked

NEVER!!! Once the company decides to stop supporting that gen of console, you lose your games. Are 360 digital games going to be supported forever? I doubt it because I can't even buy a 360 controller that works.

This is why I don't game on a PC. If you buy a physical PC game in a box, all you're given is a piece of cardboard with a digital code. What's the point in that?

I don't ever want to be reliant on my games working because of internet access.

Sounds good to me. I am all for more options.

what they wanted from the beginning.... No thanks

I pretty much buy all my games digitally now (have more or less been doing it since I bought Alien Isolation on the PS4 back in 2014), that said I don't really like the idea of an all-digital console. Oh, and yeah 4K Blu-rays; can't do that with a digital-only device.

Hope the console makers don't go all-digital next gen.

I've mostly switched to digital for game purchases, but the disc drive still gets plenty of use, for Blu-rays and game rentals.

I hope this nonsense flops..

*for starters= the internet is needed & that's not always guaranteed..

6 months ago my NewEngland town lost power for high winds & The internet didn't work when it came back online.

So the @sshat tech dude @ ISP cable company resets the modem or something & now a technician has to come & replace it.

It was 100% out of my control. And the 1st appointment was 6 days later & the dude no showed 1st time so it was 7 days..

And it was then that I realized I didn't have a lot of "digital" games installed.

Despite owning like 200+ on PlayStation & triple that on Xbox(backwards compat).

All those games that I couldn't play because they weren't installed..

I hope the next consoles have 20 TB or something large enough to have 20+ games installed...

What gamer esp younger gamer doesn't want to have the ability to sell/trade etc

so long as microsoft, sony and nintendo offer a sku for phsyical and a sku for digital-only, there is nothing to get hot headed about here. now, if next gen one of the big 3 were to release a digital-only console with no other option, then you can complain all you want. i don't see that happening next gen, but it could happen the gen after (i.e. in about 8 years from now). in other words, what microsoft is doing here is the first push... by 2027, physical game sales will likely be less than 25% of all sales (in north america), at which point, the big three will not hesitate to cut out physical media and control their policies and software prices completely. there will no longer be a second hand market and the idea of physical game collecting will come to an abrupt end. that future is inevitable, unfortunately, so collect as many physical games while you still can. i can guarantee that in 25 years from now, many physical games will fetch decent prices and the investment will be a worthwhile one for physical collectors. for digital-only gamers, their collection will be worthless.

I like the idea of a new XBOX machine.

Yea-no. As someone who lives in a place with a halfway reliable connection, I will never go all-digital. Internet is far too unreliable, and you surrender all ownership of your game copy by doing this. They can close servers and erase whole games as they see fit, censor whatever they want, and change whatever they want. Sure that if this trend continues, there will be more subscription fees added and one-way alterations made.

This is exactly why the Xbox One got so many complaints in the first place, and in just one generation people are falling into it like lemmings. If all gaming media goes this way I'm out - I'll just play my old library that will outlive any future digital-only game on the horizon.

I like digital, but I also like the physical part of media like the cover artwork.

Nope.

Every thing now is subscription based, leasing, or streaming. It's so sad. We pay but we don't own anything anymore. These companies just own us now.

Good luck and horrible pricing model. Can buy an Xbox One S with a 4k drive for $199 with a game included as well. And all those games are on Gamepass. Also, with bandwidth caps for the majority at 1tb (In the US) no one in their right mind will be buying this unless they want to pay through the nose in internet overages or fork over another 50 a month for unlimited data which is still throttled in most cases. Christ, my game patches alone are eating up a quarter of my cap these days.

Gimme an X variant and I'll be all over this. Need a 2nd X1X for my game room. I'll pass if it's only offered in the S version.

I think that's the proper way to do things!

I prefer to have them diss the optical drive progressively on a mid-generation "optional" model than coming out "BAM!" with a new console gen that doesn't have them forcing everyone to change their habits wether they like it or not.

I've always been a fan of physical medias myself but I find it more and more convenient to go all digital.
Had they force me towards it on day one PS4 release, I would've been pissed off but it is slowly happening and now if they'd come up with a PS4 Pro Mini like 50% smaller in size since they removed the optical drive, I'd consider getting one.

The only games I bought "physical" over the past years are games I thought I might return for trade-in value but even on that point, I've seen lots of electronics/video game stores close all around the place so I figure it's a matter of time before I can't trade-in games anyway so what's the point in lots of cumbersome medias, requiring to switch disks all the time?

I used to have a shelf full of PS4 game disks, now I have a 2Tb HDD instead, keep 50~100 game library installed, swap some in/out upon my actual tastes and enjoy the fact that whenever I wanna move, bring my console, all my library sticks to me!

Meh!

I guess I prefer to come to conclusion by my own that having it forced on me, I might be weird but hey, to each their own!

Xbox one S, all digital edition.

Xbox one SAD edition.

Blu-Ray drives have become dirt cheap. Buying them by the millions makes them even cheaper. Seriously, how much money can you save buying one without a disc drive? If not for games then for UHD movies. One less piece of electronics to worry about by not having to buy a Blu-Ray player. I use PLEX and still have a huge collection of games and movies on disc. And it will be a long time before I start buying digital codes for Xmas and putting a piece of paper under the tree. Seems like a fake leak to me. Business wise, it makes no sense unless they are releasing it for the Xmas crowd who can only afford an Xbox if it's $20 off due to lack of disc drive. Either there will be no next gen announcement any time soon or this will be like the really cheap 360 that came out after the launch of the X1. And even that had a disc drive.

Would be a terrible idea over here in Australia with how shit our internet is here lol. We did just get nbn available in our area so maybe that will improve things. If our internet doesn’t get better then the digital only consoles won’t go well (at least in Australia)

I know this is the future but there are definitely some benefits physical games have over digital. If you're just a naturally unlucky person, digital can be a colossal pain.