Can the Xbox One S Disc Edition play digital games?

You have names mixed up. There are no consoles named the Xbox One Series S or Xbox One Series X.

The Xbox One/One S/One X all have a disc drive.

The Xbox One S All Digital Edition does not have a disc drive.

The Xbox Series X has a disc drive.

The Xbox Series S does not have a disc drive.

All the consoles can play backward compatible games. The Series S and One S all digital edition can only play games digitally downloaded.

The other consoles can play games from disc and from digitally downloaded,

I hope this clears things up for you.

If your Xbox One has a disc Drive (Xbox One S Digital Edition does not), then yes you can insert the disc and install the game and play it on the Xbox One.

Hello

You can only play digital games.

The one that you can turn a game into a disc to digital game is a feature that a lot of people are asking for, including me.

I recommend the game pass for the xbox one s all digital edition.

By ditching its internal disc drive, this means the XboxOne S All-Digital Edition can't
play any disc-based media. ... The Xbox One also
doesn't support external disc-drives over USB,
making it impossible to regain disccompatibility after purchase. https://www.windowscentral.com/does-xbox-one-s-all-digital-edition-play-discs

Hi,

Information regarding how to play backwards compatible games on Xbox One can be found here: https://support.xbox.com/games/backward-compatibility/play-xbox-360-games-on-xbox-one.

Did you mean that you have an Xbox One S all-digital edition? If so, then the answer is unfortunately no, and you can only play digital versions of the backwards compatible games. If you have an Xbox One S with a disc drive then you can simply pop the disc
into the console.

I hope this helps,