New Xbox with no disc drive announced for £199 with three games
for it from Microsoft's digital store even with a temporary 20 per cent discount for the spring sale.
It does go the other way occasionally too -- you can get a download code for Gears of War 4 for just £2.99Discounts on new games such as Anthem tend to hit physical shops long before digital storesabout the new device, which suggested it would be release in May and cost $250 in the US., Microsoft's plan for the console is to use it to cut the PlayStation's lead this generation by aggressively cutting the costs of getting into Xbox before totally new consoles arrive in 2020.
It was rumoured that a disc-to-digital trade-in service that would allow Xbox fans to get digital download codes for games they already own and ditch the physical copies was going to be revealed alongside the console, but there is no sign of this yet. The report suggest that Microsoft's focus on both devices is to get the cost down as much as possible "without sacrificing the core gaming experience", but it is unclear which corners may be cut to try and bring the costs down.
, though that is widely expected to come in two flavours too, one of which will also lack an optical drive.Microsoft confirmed at E3 2018 it was working on traditional next-gen hardware as well as a new game-streaming platform,
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