Why does my Xbox not recognise any disc games?

Hi there - have you tried cleaning the disc? Does the Xbox recognise the disc as Skate 3?

One S is digital only.... Using disc on my 'main' xbox, like playing games on 'spare' occasionally.

That would be why. When you buy a disc game, the disc is primarily used to prove ownership and so the disc has to be in the drive all the time you play the game. As the One S is digital only, you can't put the disc in thus the system does not recognise you own the game hence the purchase prompts.

Unfortunately, in order to play it on your One S, you will need to purchase the digital version of it

Be more specific.

Do you get an error message?

Does is not recognise that a disc is in the drive?

Does it happen to downloaded games?

the xbox does not recognise the external hard drive and the only games i can play are the only ones that are installed on the xbox and when i start up the xbox none of the games come up and when i insert a disc i just says install disc but it does not work

Hi mturner3,

After I posted this, I tried inserting one of the new backwards compatible game discs (Max Payne 2, from the original Xbox console) into my Xbox One X, and got the same error message. As soon as I connected the Xbox One X to my phone hotspot and reinserted the disc, it recognised it immediately and started downloading. I then switched back to my normal internet via local WiFi and it recognised the disc still.

I have no idea why this would fix it? I am sorry if this hasn't worked for you.

Cheers

Dave