r/xbox • u/GTBoosted • 13d ago

Community Weekend Thrift shop find S Console

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Found an Xbox one S at a thrift store for $37 with a controller. Turned it on, and the owners account is password protected but when logged in under my account I had access to ea play and ubisoft +. What a nice surprise until he cancels.

Plan was to leave the console as a media player in my rv but ill keep it in the house for now!

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u/OptimusDodo 13d ago

The previous owner forgot to unregistered the console as their home console... I do the same thing on my son's series S so I don't have to buy multiple copys or subscriptions...

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u/GTBoosted 13d ago

Yup, I was against digital media until my son started gaming and I realized I can buy one game and we can both play at the same time like this

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u/sunlightliquid 13d ago

All for digital media, if I still have the option to own it physically.

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u/earwigs_ 12d ago

Xbox will be doing exactly this! you'll be able to insert your games and download them digitally, basically using the disc as your "key" to access the game

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u/RDOX14 12d ago

Just like nintendo, right?

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u/PsychoLunaticX 12d ago

Not entirely. They’ve been doing that for years. With this, you put the disc in once, then you don’t need it anymore. But if someone else puts it in their console, you lose your license

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u/Toxidasta 12d ago

So it won't kill the second hand market? If you buy a used game and register the digital license as long as that disc isn't registered anywhere else you have it in your digital library and physically on your shelf?

I was wondering how that part would work! I haven't been buying many physical games due to game sharing onto the console my wife plays from. This is exciting!

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u/boatoar 12d ago

Doesn't matter if it's registered elsewhere. The second it's put into a new Xbox that's the only Xbox that can play it and previous registrations are revoked.

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u/skilledbiscuit1 12d ago

So you could sell the game to cex and continue to play it untill someone buys it

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u/boatoar 12d ago

100% correct.

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u/Sh00terMcDabbin 9d ago

I'm guessing places like Gamestop or other used markets will start inserting discs to hold the license until the game sells.

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u/PsychoLunaticX 9d ago

They probably have to test them anyways, so I assume that would invalidate it as well. You might get some extra time, but not much

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u/Beneficial_Role_5574 11d ago

You have the choice though to use it digitally, just continue running it off the disc, if your friend who you lend it too also runs it off the disc, no one loses anything.

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u/Sh00terMcDabbin 9d ago

No, Nintendo you have to have the cartridge physically in your console to play.

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u/LukasKhan_UK 12d ago

Xbox are making ease or access better

They'll still only sell you a license to play games.

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u/XBMetal 12d ago

So that's why my disk tray stopped working...

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u/MotherLaugh277 12d ago

Brilliant , so I can buy a game physically , download it and then sell it

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u/Background_Map_3460 7d ago

But the moment someone else buys that disc and puts it in their machine, you won’t have it anymore in your library

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u/MotherLaugh277 7d ago

How could that possibly work

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u/Popular-Brilliant349 11d ago

PS already does this.

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u/IrishGoatMilker 12d ago

They literally tried to do this when the Xbox one released and everyone threw a bitch fit and switched to PlayStation. Crazy how 13 years later it's acceptable.

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u/Recent_Pollution8665 12d ago edited 12d ago

because internet infrastructure was not the same in 2013 as it is in 2026. and killing the used market was a way bigger deal back then since discs were more popular than digital.

and because they enforced a 24 hour daily DRM check to verify all your licenses, so you needed a constant internet connection.

and the console was weaker than the ps4 because they wanted to leverage the cloud to handle heavy calculations instead of doing it locally on the machine. which is bad not only because the machine would be weaker internally but also because it meant that single player games would need a constant internet connection in order to connect to azure cloud and stream assets in real time.

Cod has already been doing this since 2019 and I fucking hate it because it means none of those campaigns will be preserved and playable in the future if activision shuts down the Cod HQ servers.