Adam Tyner

Dollar for dollar, I'll always take a physical copy over digital. When there are zero dollars involved, well, I'll take whatever I'm given.

Dan

Brack, I've pretty much adopted the same mentality. I was ALL digital for most of the year, but I've relaxed that a bit. I've only purchased 4 physical games. Wolfenstein, COD:AW, Halo, and Alien. The first two, I've completed, and they're going to BB for trade-in today. Alien is up next. Halo, I'll probably play all the SP stuff, then trade it in, and re-buy digitally when it's on sale.

fumanstan

I can see why someone would prefer physical copies in the bundle over digital, but as mentioned the digital copies can be resold too and at least they're free, so its not too bad. I can see digital copies being a lot easier to "bundle" for these editions, so i'm not surprised at that's how they're provided. I wouldn't call them bullshit though.

LorenzoL

That's me too.

Dan

I imagine, when the PS4 and XO libraries are big enough, we'll start to see much better sales, as publishers will be more willing to discount "older" content. Maybe never as good as Steam, but "good enough" for those who don't use their PC for games.

All except EA anyway. They seem all-in on EA Access. I wonder how that's working out, revenue-wise, for them.

DRG

The $379 Walmart online Black Friday (actually Thursday) bundle actually doesn't seem like a terrible deal. It's the Halo bundle, a year of Live, and an extra game (choices seem to be limited to either Madden 15 or NBA 2K15). I wish they had a few more options for the bonus games since I'm not a sports game guy, but it's a good amount of stuff for the price.

RichC2

At least that will be a physical game, you should be able to return it.

Music

Many Thanks for One Year with Xbox One

http://news.xbox.com/2014/11/xbox-on...s-for-one-year


Saturday, November 22, marks the official one year anniversary of Xbox One. It’s been an unbelievable year, but we never would have gotten to this point without our incredible fans. We want to thank you for being a part of an amazing 12 months by celebrating with you all weekend long.

First, if you’re in one of our original 13 markets and have opted in to receive Xbox Marketing emails*, you’ll receive a personalized email detailing what you’ve accomplished since Xbox One launched last November. Here’s a look at some of the community achievements made on Xbox One this past year:

Overall, the total community Gamerscore earned on Xbox One is more than 11 billion
Fans spent more than 2 billion hours playing games on Xbox One
The top four most popular achievements unlocked include:
Forza Motorsport 5: Welcome to Forza Motorsport
Titanfall: Build Yourself
Destiny: Ship Rite
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Spatial Awareness


But that’s not all! To show our appreciation for your loyal and continued support for Xbox One, we’ll have several gifts available for our fans, celebrating one year on Xbox One. Beginning Friday, everyone** will get:

A Year One Gamer Picture
New Xbox One backgrounds: A special Year One background as well as an exclusive Day One background for those who unlocked the Day One achievement
A Year One background image for use on Twitter, your desktop, etc.
A free rental of “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn” (for a limited time)
A free rental of “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods” movie and a sampler pack of “Dragon Ball Z” TV episodes (for a limited time, available in the U.S. and Canada only)


And in addition, fans will be selected at random to receive a special gift from us. The full list of possible gifts include:

Xbox One Limited Edition Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Bundle (U.S. only)
Xbox One Special Edition Sunset Overdrive Bundle (U.S. only)
One month membership for Xbox One-exclusive EA Access service
Tiger Shark cash card for Grand Theft Auto V, worth $200,000 in-game GTA Online dollars
Forza gift pack with Forza RallyCross hat, Lamborghini Huracán 1/24 scale replica, and Xbox One Controller (launch team edition) signed by Tanner Foust, host of Top Gear America, Global RallyCross champion and professional stunt driver (U.S. only)
Forza Horizon 2 Limited Edition Casio G-Shock Men's Black Multi-Function Digital Sports Watch (U.S. only)
Grand Theft Auto V gift pack with the Los Santos Sheriff Trucker cap, Michael, Franklin and Trevor Posters, and a Grand Theft Auto V sticker pack (U.S. only)
Xbox Live Gold 12-month membership digital code
Killer Instinct Season 1 Combo Breaker Pack, the retail version of Killer Instinct Xbox One’s first season and includes all eight season one characters: Jago, Sabrewulf, Glacius, Thunder, Sadira, Orchid, and Spinal. Also includes Fulgore DLC character.
Special limited edition Nissan 370Z, featuring a custom Casio livery for Forza Horizon 2
Air Vehicle shortcut for Battlefield 4 for immediate access to all available unlocks for helicopters and jets available in the main Battlefield 4 game
Arno's French Rapier for Assassin's Creed Unity to improve your combat skills
75 Platinum in Warframe
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Costume Pack for Peggle 2
Epic Quest Table in Pinball FX2
Dance Central Spotlight (full game token)
Project Spark Premium - 15 days: Grants 2x gain of Spark XP, credits, and champion XP, as well as the ability to purchase new token-only content for earned in-game credits


While we’re just getting started in some markets, we remain committed to all of our incredible fans worldwide and we’re so grateful for your support over the last year. Thank you for helping us celebrate this incredible milestone.


*The achievements celebration email will be sent to Xbox One customers who purchased prior to October 1, 2014, in our 13 launch markets who opted in to receive Xbox Marketing emails prior to Nov 11, 2014, are 17 years or older and have 10+ hours of usage on Xbox One. You can see which email address (if any) you have opted in, by signing in to your Xbox Live account on Xbox.com, clicking your Gamertag in the upper right, then Profile > Privacy Settings > Contact Preferences.
**The Year One Celebration gift box email will be sent to Xbox One customers who purchased the console between 11/22/13 – 11/11/14, in our 13 launch markets, are 17 years or older and have 10+ hours of usage on Xbox One.

fumanstan

When do people start complaining about the shitty free gifts?

Dan

All the good stuff is U.S. only.

Day one backgrounds, though?!

Rob V

well, they are shitty.

Decker

Totally worth the extra $100 it cost me.

chuckd21

That Day One achievement is the gift that keeps on giving.

Dan

Maybe for Year Two, we'll get a Day One version of Internet Explorer! Or a Day One extension cord for the Kinect! Or a Day One tattoo for our avatars! The possibilities are end-- nah, they end there.

Dan

This is out now. I'm definitely going to play it, and I'm anticipating a heart-breaking ending.

MoviePage

It's also currently discounted to $13.49 for Gold members. Not a huge discount, but hey. I'm debating it myself (would be an insta-buy at $9.99).

fumanstan

Reviews for the game seem mixed; the art style is beautiful though and i'm really intrigued by the setting.

Deftones

HBO Go hits the One today.

discostu1337

The Atari landfill documentary is also out in the form of an Atari app

Dan

I started watching it last night. Not bad. I'll watch the rest this weekend, I think.

RichC2

I normally agree, I bought FH2 as digital though since it's a great game to just fire up while waiting for other stuff. Not having to constantly pop that disc in is great.

Brack

So happy about this!

mattysemo247

Didn't that Halo series start yet? How is it?

Decker

Is there some site where you can see everything you've purchased off Xbox Live, not just the stuff you actually paid for? PSN shows you all the transactions.

Sgtsnake

You think we'll ever see the day with a digital store. To sell and buy used digital games in some type of market place form?