Buying on sale digital games on XBOX ONE

Hi all,

I am a proud owner of an 8 and a half year old XBOX 360, and jumping onto the XBOX ONE bandwagon after E3. I have been missing a lot of X1 games on sale through the Deals with Gold program. I was wondering if I can still get those games at a discounted price,
put them on the X1 download queue and download them when I actually buy the X1? I know there is a way by which you can get and queue the X1 Games with Gold games without even having an X1, so I was wondering if this was possible with the Deals with Gold games
as well.

Thanks,

Diego

:)

 

Painfully slow download of games

This is why all digital games is a bad idea. They're rarely on sale. Can't trade them in either. What's the point to buying digital anyways?

 

Pros and cons of having a game on disc vs. having a digital copy

Specific to Xbox One, Digital allows for play without a disc present. It prohibits resale. Games purchased digitally can often times be refunded with a call to Live Support. I did this for the Xbox One version of the Destiny Digital Guardian Edition after
the news came out about the buy on 360, get it on Xbox One for free.

Disc-based games must have the disc in the console to be played. They can be resold. Disc-based games routinely go on sale unlike Digital, though MS has been better about sales on digital titles as of late.

There is no "size" difference as both digital and disc titles deposit the same bits on to the Xbox One HDD. In fact, installed-from-disc titles can be converted to digital titles (and thus obviate the need for the disc) by simply buying the digital version
of an installed-from-disc title. No re-downloading is required.

 

You can buy the games through the website (Xbox One Games | Xbox) and they will be in your Download Queue when you pick up an Xbox One, provided you use the same account.

You can also 'purchase' the free Games with Gold (at no cost) so they too will be ready to download. In fact, you can actually do this right from your Xbox 360 dashboard: navigate to the Games with Gold tab, click A and it will show you the Xbox One games.
Simply purchase them and they will be added to your Xbox One queue, even if you do not have an Xbox One yet.

Note, however, that you will need to be a Gold member for Deals with Gold and Games with Gold; the account you used to post to the forums appears to only be Silver. Also note there is no way to get the free Games with Gold that you have missed, or the Deals
with Gold you have missed.

Let us know how you get on.

 

Thank you very much for your help. I successfully managed to solve this issue by following your guidance.

Cheers.