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Yes.

I have gone all digital this gen. No more hunting for disks or having to swap them or risk them getting damaged. I don't buy used games so that is a non issue for me anyway. So I guess it comes down to personal requirements. To me all digital is a massive benefit, I personally wish this gen had saved space and done away with the optical drives all together.



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Having digital rights can work in your favor. Lets say you own digital rights to a 360 game and M$ decides to be very nice and say, well why not? If there is an Xbox One version you can have ownership to that too. It's possible, considering how M$ wants to unify Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox One in the future. The 360 has had a lot of great deals over the past year in addition to the free gold games. I have double dipped on the cheap games just to get digital rights, even though I already have the physical game. Most of the games were around the $5-$10 range.







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Recon1O1 said:

murph? Thanks for the helpful advice.  There's not a rental shop anywhere around here.  I haven't rented since Blockbuster died.  When I did it was $10 for a week or $30 a month.  I recently bought AC3 for $22 and got $9 back 5 weeks later.  So yeah thanks anyway.


Gamefly dude, it's the best way to try out games.



Of course! Why not? First - all games on  Xbox One will run off the hard drive.  The disk is just for the DRM.  You can download them as long as you want and long as they are on the server over and over again. So if your Xbox get stolen or your house burns down, you can just redownload all your games on a new system.

Plus, they travel with you. So you can go to a friends console, log in, and download the game over there.

Plus you get the full features of instantly switching through all your games without swapping disk. Losing a disk or having it get broken or scratched.

Sure you can't sell it - but is $5 on your $59 game really worth it?



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

Tell me a funny joke!

Yeah, that is a thing. People can't break/steal/lose digital games.



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No. But not because of the obvious reasons. You shouldn't go digital because then you don't look to be as much of a video game hoarder. And what fun is that?



NintendoPie said:
No. But not because of the obvious reasons. You shouldn't go digital because then you don't look to be as much of a video game hoarder. And what fun is that?


I only buy like 10 games for each system anyways lol



It sounds to me like you are trying to talk yourself into going digital more than anything, I say go for it. I'm looking forward to it this gen myself for many of the reasons that some people already mentioned. Like you, I don't buy a whole lot of games and I have NEVER traded/resold/bought used. I have been known to buy a new release or two on sale (like $45 at Newegg) from time to time but whatever. I might buy physical here or there but I like the idea of how the swapping feature works on the One as well as no more standing in some shitty two hour line waiting for the next big Halo.



I LOVE paying for Xbox Live! I also love that my love for it pisses off so many people.

I would say go digital, if i didn't give 2 shits about someone. Not something you'd advise someone.



Unless you buy a 2tb harddrive or have gigabit internet its going to suck managing diskspace with all digital



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