rcajun90 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 I’m having a problem with transferring COD Cold War from my Xbox one. It says I don’t own the game when I launch it but if I try to buy it, it says I already own it. Anyone have any suggestions? Is it possible to transfer disk games to the Xbox S? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagosaurus Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 One S or Series S ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcajun90 Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 31 minutes ago, Jagosaurus said: One S or Series S ? The new all digital S. Xbox consoles can be confusing. I have a Xbox one and transferred that game to the new S along with others. I’m noticing a problem with all my Xbox one disk games. It’s the same account on both consoles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagosaurus Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) Man... I don't think what you're trying to do is possible. If so... you could borrow a disc, throw it on a HDD, then return the disc. I think you need to have disc present, in console drive, as a "license key" which isn't possible on the all digital S. It's my understanding you forfeit your physical library with the both Digital One S and Series S. I haven't purchased a Series S due to this. I own a good chunk of physical games so waiting to buy a Series X to leverage the disc drive. If someone can correct me, I'll go buy a Series S tomorrow lol. Edited January 28, 2022 by Jagosaurus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcajun90 Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Jagosaurus said: Man... I don't think what you're trying to do is possible. If so... you could borrow a disc, throw it on a HDD, then return the disc. I think you need to have disc present, in console drive, as a "license key" which isn't possible on the all digital S. It's my understanding you forfeit your physical library with the both Digital One S and Series S. I haven't purchased a Series S due to this. I own a good chunk of physical games so waiting to buy a Series X to leverage the disc drive. If someone can correct me, I'll go buy a Series S tomorrow lol. Thank you! The digital games transferred fine. You saved me hours of frustration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagosaurus Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 16 hours ago, rcajun90 said: Thank you! The digital games transferred fine. You saved me hours of frustration. Well... you had me curious lol. My understanding confirmed here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/transfer-discs-games-to-digital-xbox-one-s/54a374df-af4e-4819-9044-21cdd910c73d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Transferring disc games won't do you any good. You still need a disc in the drive to play a particular title. Kind of hard to do that when you do not have a disc drive. ? Random thought: I really wish Microsoft would enable external USB disc drive support. The games install to the hard drive anyway and the disc is basically just used as a key to access the content. That would give Series S owners a way of still using physical media. Yeah, it'd be more clunky than just having a Series X, but I don't see why it can't be done. I can pretty much hook up any USB DVD or BluRay drive and Windows will let me use it as if I had a dedicated internal drive in my PC. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagosaurus Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Agree @Austin. Unfortunately there's copy protection on the disc and a process for the drive to verify it. It's my understanding this is why a standard USB drive won't work... to prevent using rips/burns as that license key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smith Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Wow. Glad I read this. I have a small collection of discs for my Xbox One and that's something to consider when you go the cheaper Series S route. Kind of sucks. In a way, you really don't own anything (physical or digital). You're ok if your existing Xbox One works well, but for someone in the market for a new gen Xbox (and with the Series X being in short supply), this is a dilemma to consider. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagosaurus Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 This is why everyone was calling the all digital Xbox One S... the Xbox One Sad ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/29/2022 at 3:20 PM, Austin said: Transferring disc games won't do you any good. You still need a disc in the drive to play a particular title. Kind of hard to do that when you do not have a disc drive. ? Random thought: I really wish Microsoft would enable external USB disc drive support. The games install to the hard drive anyway and the disc is basically just used as a key to access the content. That would give Series S owners a way of still using physical media. Yeah, it'd be more clunky than just having a Series X, but I don't see why it can't be done. I can pretty much hook up any USB DVD or BluRay drive and Windows will let me use it as if I had a dedicated internal drive in my PC. MS was suppose to let you trade your disks in for digital copies but that never happened, so it's back to getting screwed over Gamestop trade-ins which are a penny for every dollar they resell the game for. PS. If I had a significant large library of physical media like disk games and/or Blu-Ray movies, I'd still keep my Xbox One S and only use a Series S for the optimized titles. Bugger if I'm buying a $500 Series X for a non-4K TV... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 On 2/1/2022 at 4:06 AM, MrMaddog said: MS was suppose to let you trade your disks in for digital copies but that never happened, so it's back to getting screwed over Gamestop trade-ins which are a penny for every dollar they resell the game for. PS. If I had a significant large library of physical media like disk games and/or Blu-Ray movies, I'd still keep my Xbox One S and only use a Series S for the optimized titles. Bugger if I'm buying a $500 Series X for a non-4K TV... Then don't trade them in at Gamestop. Sell them on Craigslist, Facebook or even on here in the sales forum. Not as fast but will bring in more for digital replacements. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jd_1138 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 5:38 PM, Jagosaurus said: This is why everyone was calling the all digital Xbox One S... the Xbox One Sad ? My first Xbox One S was the all digital edition. I grew tired of not being able to pick up cheap games at yard sales, pawn shops, Game Stop, ebay, etc., and I wanted a Blu-ray player. So I bought a new One S with optical drive. I offered up the All Digital one to a co-worker for his son or $50 (with a wired PowerA controller). I was sure to stress it was the "ALL DIGITAL EDITION" several times. I brought it in, and he said "where do you put discs in?" I said it doesn't have an optical drive. I told you it was all digital which he didn't know what the F that meant. He was kinda annoyed. I said you don't have to buy it, but he did. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagosaurus Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 (edited) Well... looks like MS is hearing this feedback. Check out this patent filed ? Microsoft has plans for an Xbox Series S external disc drive: https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-has-plans-for-an-xbox-series-s-external-disc-drive Edited May 14, 2022 by Jagosaurus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) On 5/13/2022 at 10:07 PM, Jagosaurus said: Well... looks like MS is hearing this feedback. Check out this patent filed ? Microsoft has plans for an Xbox Series S external disc drive: https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-has-plans-for-an-xbox-series-s-external-disc-drive Like Bill Gates once said, "It's a kludge, but it works!" Edited June 12, 2022 by MrMaddog Spell check Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 On 5/13/2022 at 10:07 PM, Jagosaurus said: Well... looks like MS is hearing this feedback. Check out this patent filed ? Microsoft has plans for an Xbox Series S external disc drive: https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-has-plans-for-an-xbox-series-s-external-disc-drive It's a great idea if true. The more options, the better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smith Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 It's a good idea, but man, the thought of buying and hanging onto yet another add-on does not appeal. The Series S really needs an update to include the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, Leonard Smith said: The Series S really needs an update to include the drive. The point of it is to keep the price tag low. One significant way that they took to accomplish that was to omit the drive. So especially in today's world where gamers are increasingly going all-digital, I can't say that I agree. Going the optional external route though makes a lot of sense. It offers an affordable upgrade path for the people that don't need 4k but ended up regretting losing the ability to play discs on their new Xbox. Or for the folks that never wanted to lose the disc drive but begrudgingly bought a Series S simply due to severe availability issues with Microsoft's premium system. Now if this happens, their compromised system will be able to be made complete. And for the majority that are happily buying a Series S and don't care that it can't play discs, they're not stuck paying extra for a feature they wouldn't of used anyways. Edited June 16, 2022 by Atariboy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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