No hope for us Digital ONLY console owners??

That is because if you read the upgrade description

The upgrade is NOT for disk owners and only digital owners

Since you still can buy "non-digital" consoles with disc drive, you can still get such a console if you want to keep your disc based games. The consoles with disc drive can also be used to download games digitally.

As for getting a digital version for your disc purchase, that probably won't happen, as the publishers would face the problem of their game not selling anymore.

Imagine a person buying the game on disc. Then telling Microsoft, they went digital, get the download version for free, and then sell the disc.

The new disc owner tells Microsoft they went digital, gets the free download and sells the disc.

Then the new disc owner tells Microsoft they went digital, gets the free download and sells the disc.

Then the new disc owner tells Microsoft they went digital, gets the free download and sells the disc.

Then the new disc owner tells Microsoft they went digital, gets the free download and sells the disc.

etc...

Eventually, the whole world owns the game digitally, but the game was really only sold once, causing a huge loss for the game's publisher.

So if you still want to keep your discs, simply don't buy the all digital version of the Xbox One console.

Only digital owners can play the beta.

Hi Reddevil120779,

If playing Xbox games using a disc, you will be able to transfer the game to the Xbox digital if using an external HDD but wont be able to play as the disc required in order to verify you are the owner of the game.

The digital Xbox is great if you are new to Xbox and only intend to buy digital games or you already have a large collection of games purchased from the Microsoft store. Its also great for GamePass too.

Hope this helps

The only way you would be able to do so is to buy it. You basically only have access to the game because the original owner left the console as their Home console, but you don't actually own it. Digital content cannot transfer ownership.