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

Why would I buy this, when I can get a cheaper used XB1S with a drive and play all my old disc-based games. For anyone new to the ecosystem, why would they do that too & miss all the great used discounted disc games available out there? Price should have been $150-200 at most, save your money & just buy a Switch then. Ridiculous thinking at MS, they should have just asked me! These people working at MS are so disconnected from reality, they are well paid & have no concept of who buys their games. If I was rich, then I would be traveling the world and living it up, but my funds are limited & I choose to spend my money wisely. The XB1 SAD is not a wise choice, and this despite loving my XB1X. Had it been a XB1X SAD, then maybe worth it, but not a "S." Man are the reporters & media going to have a blast with the "SAD" acronym when this box fails. FYI, I have both PS4 & XB1X, but man I truly do love my XB1X with all the backwards compat. games I have & the power.

Wait...would I not only be willing to go digital for all future games, but would I also be willing to give up ownership of actual discs just to get digital copies where ownership is so nebulous MS can wipe any game out at any time for any reason?

oh, sure...let me sign right up.

The only thing i can say for sure is, i wont buy it.

Xbox one: Sad edition is a winner.

There's no way that price is accurate.

I’ll go digital once they make a subscription model that’s reasonable enough that has all the games in it. If the subscription has an upgrade to play a game a few weeks earlier, then I’ll pay for that too. Otherwise, I’ll be sitting out of the next gen if they go the all digital route and the pricing model stays like it is currently.

The way i see it, you are paying the same price of the standard xbox one and you are getting less, also releasing this late in the generation it doesn't even make sense, a new xbox will come in 2020.... I would never buy a console without a disc drive, i use discs all the time!

LOL 229 Euros?

Isn't that the price of a new XB1 with a disc drive?

Amazon Warehouse even has ''like new'' ones listed for as low as $140.

BYE Microsoft

Looking forward to seeing if they will try the always on approach again with the next gen console.

Even though most of my X1 games are digital (thanks Gold) I'm not interested at all. Especially as I have two discs. And no, i don't care to trade them in for download codes.

People buy games on PC digitally because they are exponentially cheaper than their physical counterparts but this is not the case on consoles. Why would anyone pay 60 quid for some downloaded bits and bytes when you can buy the game physically for the same ammount of money? Also, digital games are linked to your accounts so no more trading with friends. People in this topic actually supporting this retarded practice should grow some brains.

90% of my purchases are physical but the MS game pass service is actually quite good. I don't have an xbox yet so I could actually buy this... but only if it is significantly cheaper than the standard model (let's say $150 max)

@BridgeToClarity: LMAO

Reminds me of the Xbox 360 Arcade when people thought a proprietary 256MB memory stick was all that was needed to play games because that's what came in the box. Sold a lot of hard drives for them. A lot of hard drives. There are more people with lousy internet speeds and caps than there are those with good speeds and no caps. I hear all the time how someone on my friends list has to wait to download a massive patch for a game because they've reached their cap for the month. 30GB patches are now the norm. Game downloads plus the patch can be upwards of 80GB or more. That's twice many people's monthly cap. Until almost all ISP's get on board with fast speeds and no caps, digital only is a fantasy for the gaming industry. Same for streaming only. It'll be years before the majority of people have reliable, fast speeds to stream 1080p/60fps or higher reliably. This is basically what Microsoft wanted when they first launched the Xbox One and people lost their minds. Now we are getting closer to that original plan and people are all, yeah that's cool with me. They've just decided to go with the original plan in little increments, hoping we won't notice or care. Soon it will be 1 copy for 1 person and no resale value. Great for single guys living alone. Not so great for couples or families.