Just found this page which advertises bundles starting at $299 between 22-26 November.
https://www.xbox.com/en-AU/promotions/sales/black-friday
Looking at the US website, they've taken $100 off all of their X-Box bundles for Black Friday - so looks like Australia might be following suit. The Sea-Of-Theives bundle even has $299 in the description… (Currently $399)
Do you know how they will do the trade in? Send the discs without cases by post maybe?
The article i was reading said it will be a trade in at "approved retailers"
(maybe Microsoft will pay EB a fee or something for each game they trade in for the digital code or something)
https://www.polygon.com/xbox-one/2018/11/17/18099997/rumor-x…
Sounds good if you like the Xbox Game Pass.
I prefer physical discs.
Trialling a release of a discless console prior to doing it with the next gen machine perhaps?
You do miss out on a fair whack of features with no optical drive though. Audio CD, DVD, Bluray, 4K Discs, backward compat with your existing Xbox Classic, Xbox 360 discs. Smaller downloads for disc based games (usually), easier trading of games.
I wonder if MS will also be releasing a standalone 4K optical drive addon?
You do miss out on a fair whack of features with no optical drive though. Audio CD, DVD, Bluray, 4K Discs, backward compat with your existing Xbox Classic, Xbox 360 discs. Smaller downloads for disc based games (usually), easier trading of games.
Doesn't seem worth it at all. Also miss out on games that go on sale.
Yeah, discless means you will be ultimately locked down to one seller… MS. With a monopoly comes less chance for discounted games. Even with competition, MS pricing is generally waaaay higher than other methods of buying games, during sales, secondhand etc.
A US$100 initial saving is going to come back to bite us all.
They'll want you to use game pass as a subscription service.
Doesn't seem worth it at all. Also miss out on games that go on sale.
Buy physical copy on sale
Trade back for digital code.
I agree about the lack of 4K movie support etc.
I suspect it will just be a budget option with the disc version still bring a more expensive option.
Buy physical copy on sale
Trade back for digital code.
Depending on where you buy it and where you can trade it in, still a huge pia.
This was a big killer of the xbox one originally if I remember correctly until they reversed it. M$ idea I think was that you can buy the disc but it only has install data, games are locked to your account (so can be played anywhere you're logged in). The console would need to contact home once a day though to be able to play. You wouldn't need the disc to play, but you couldn't trade it in once it was on your account, you could share your game online with 5 people on your friends list which made Sony come up with this fun video of sharing games on their console.
Personally I'm super iffy with it, at anytime M$ could ban your account and you lose thousand of dollars worth of games. I hear it happen to people on PS4 where someone stole their credit card and charged money, they block all their cards so the thief doesn't get it and Sony bans their PSN account because of the credit card block for a purchase.
I love the idea of not needing to change disks but I don't trust companies holding onto my precious games haha. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a 4k addon thats standalone.
Rumor is a Disc Free Xbox One S coming in early 2019 for 200USD RRP (100 less than standard RRP)
And you will be able to trade your physical games for digital versions.