You don’t play only multiplayer games when you borrow games from your friends. Spider-man for example, borrowed that, played it and returned it to my friend. Didn’t have to buy it.

And it removes the backwards compability of 360 games as well, that you don’t have as digital copies. 

You’ll pry my physical media from my cold, dead hands.

Pretty often. Gamestop made a business out of the selling and buying of used games because there is a definite market. Gamefly and Redbox have been renting out games for years now.

I lend games frequently, friends I know do so as well. I have a decent library of titles that I’m happy to lend and sometimes it results in them buying a copy for them self.

Let me boil down why your comment makes no sense.

Digital SALES may be cheaper, but only sometimes. The normal price is always higher digital. There are digital games that are a full $60 still, when the disc version is around $20.

Wow. Didn’t think they’d make this video relevant again:

It’s probably to force all games to route through the MS store, which would also allow them to take a larger cut of commission (I assume).

I have game fly.

“Digital sales are usually cheaper that what I could buy games used.”

I’m kind of surprised by how you’re seeing this as a cost-of-entry measure, and not a steady erosion of consumer rights issue, which is what most people are losing their minds over.

It’s true. This box has no disc.

Every single available Xbox One S bundle on Amazon is under $250, so right out of the gate it’s more expensive than the other options for a One S.

Yes, it does come pre-installed with three games (Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 3, and Minecraft), but...who cares?

Everything was fine until the grid was shutdown by disc-less here...

I find it pretty funny that years later, they are basically releasing what that initial reveal of the Xbox one was in the first place (that all digital, always online what that everyone hated and they reversed).

This is a breathtakingly poor business move from Microsoft. Who is this for? A normal Xbox one s for $200 is a tough sell right now.

So, you spend the exact same amount of money for lesser hardware that removes your ability to buy used, rent, lend, borrow, sell games and movies for. . . what benefit?

No this won’t work, because they kids will know you’re using it and will know that you suck. It has to be a secret that makes you look invincible or else they’ll try to overthrow you as Lord of the Family.

But if the code is mashing A-B-A-B-A-B how would that be any different than how you and Drew play video games now?