Help- Digital Download Game from xbox marketplace won't download/play on xbox one!!

[quote user="BicolorZulu"]Since many of the games are now being sold digitally on the Xbox Marketplace, why don't Microsoft allow you to download the games you currently own on the Xbox 360 onto your Xbox One console?[/quote]

What good would downloading them do if they won't play? The downloadable games are built to the same Xbox 360 architecture as the disc-based games, and that architecture is different from the Xbox One's.

That game is not backwards compatible. https://www.xbox.com/xbox-one/backward-compatibility/available-games

Going all digital on xbox one won't have any great benefits, unless Microsoft makes digital downloads on the marketplace more competitive to buying physical.

To explain a bit why that won't work:

The Xbox One doesn't understand the "language" in which the Xbox 360 games are stored on disc or USB. The disc for physical copies is just a "proof of purchase" for the Xbox One, and the actual code for running the game on the Xbox One is downloaded from
the Xbox Marketplace in a "translated" language the Xbox One can understand.

If you installed a game from disc on an USB drive, it's missing the "proof of purchase" license the disc would provide.

If it were a digital download game, it would show up under Ready to Install in your account's Games and Apps, and you could simply download it for free, as the "proof of purchase" for a digital download game is stored in your account.

However without a disc, there is no proof of purchase, and you can't install the game on the Xbox One.

No. I'm talking about going into the Xbox marketplace and buying the game online. Not getting one of those digital download things from WalMart.