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A rumour has emerged that Microsoft is planning to embrace the all-digital future with an Xbox One S that doesn\u2019t have a disc drive.<\/p>\n
Microsoft gurus Thurrott.com say they\u2019re expecting the console to cost less than $200 in stores, and that Microsoft will be launching the console alongside an initiative whereby physical games can be traded in at participating stores for a digital download code.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft is moving forward very carefully with this product as it knows that a sizeable portion of its users do prefer to buy physical games and not download them,\u201d<\/em> says Thurrott, alluding to the controversy that surrounded the reveal of the Xbox One and the game licenses that were going to originally tied to discs.<\/p>\n It could be a cut-price way for fans to get their hands on an Xbox One, although it will mean owners could only purchase games from the Xbox and Microsoft stores. Being a walled ecosystem this would generally mean paying full whack for a game outside of digital sales. Here in the UK, for example, games are up to \u00a320 more expensive to buy digitally than they are in stores. If users could buy a physical game and then trade it in for a digital code, this could nearly circumvent that particular issue.<\/p>\n The other factor is the Xbox Game Pass, which has just passed 200 games. For about \u00a38\/$10 a month, players have access to this complete library. All they\u2019d need then is this cut-price console and they\u2019d be able to play all of the Microsoft exclusives, which isn\u2019t a bad deal at all.<\/p>\n What do you think then, is it about time for consoles without disc drives? Do you see this as being a test bed for future Xbox console designs? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A rumour has emerged that Microsoft is planning to embrace the all-digital future with an Xbox One S that doesn\u2019t have a disc drive. Microsoft gurus Thurrott.com say they\u2019re expecting the console to cost less than $200 in stores, and that Microsoft will be launching the console alongside an initiative whereby physical games can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fangfan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}