Every Xbox One game will be available digitally on its release date

Every disc-based Xbox One game will also be available to purchase from Xbox Live on its release date, Microsoft confirmed yesterday.

It's a very different policy from the situation on Xbox 360, where select disc-based games may eventually show up as downloadable titles in the Games on Demand section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, sometimes not months until after their retail release.

All Xbox One titles must be installed to the console's hard drive, so game discs essentially serve as little more than game delivery mechanisms — although installing a game from its disc will likely be faster than downloading it, depending on your internet bandwidth. Microsoft said when it unveiled the Xbox One last month that users will be able to start playing games as soon as the installation process begins.

The disc can be put aside once a game is installed: The Xbox One must check in with Xbox Live every 24 hours to ensure that a user is licensed to play a game, Microsoft confirmed yesterday. Disc-based games can be permanently given to friends through a license transfer process that can only occur once for a particular copy of a game, as long as the recipient has been on a person's Xbox Live friends list for at least 30 days.

Physical retail games can also be traded in at "participating retailers" and resold by those stores, and while Microsoft will not charge a "platform fee" to retailers, publishers or consumers for that practice, publishers may decide to charge for trade-ins or choose not to support them at all. Loaning or renting of games will not be supported at launch, although Microsoft said it is "exploring the possibilities" of allowing those practices in the future.


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I wonder if we will be able to pre-order and then schedule the download at midnight of the release date like a Dvr basically

So BlackDeath, how long do you think it'd take for you to download a game, about a week?? lol

Jesus Christ in all honesty a 4gb game would take a solid day but I'm guessing new titles will be in upwards of 30gb so yeah almost a week! lol

Theoretically, with 25mb download, it would take about 2.5 hours to download 30GB 6 hours on a 10mb connection. My guess is that the entire game wont have to be downloaded in order to play.

I see a worldwide internet crash coming in the near future. All the millions of people trying to download the newest greatest game all at the exact same time.

MoneyMan300 wrote:

Theoretically, with 25mb download, it would take about 2.5 hours to download 30GB 6 hours on a 10mb connection. My guess is that the entire game wont have to be downloaded in order to play.

30gb....6hrs....10mb connection = 30gb...60hrs...1mb connection

Vidzjunkie wrote:

All Xbox One titles must be installed to the console's hard drive,

The disc can be put aside once a game is installed: The Xbox One must check in with Xbox Live every 24 hours to ensure that a user is licensed to play a game,


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1 You had better get a 2 terabit drive for these new games that will be coming !

2 why doe's it need to check every 24 hour once should be enough !