Xbox Minecraft upgrade from 360 to One

The offer to upgrade Minecraft from xbox 360 to xbox one for a fee has expired. If you wish to upgrade, you'll have to purchase the game for the full price.

Hi, I'm afraid that upgrade offer expired a few years ago. If you wish to upgrade from "Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition" to "Minecraft" for Xbox One, you will need to buy it again.

Hi there!

I found a support article about upgrading from Xbox 360 Minecraft to Xbox One Minecraft.

On that page it says:

"Make sure you’re using the Xbox Live account that you used to play Minecraft on Xbox 360.

If you haven't launched Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition since before September 2014, do so. That will apply an update that will help verify that you’ve played the game. After the update, it will take up to 72 hours before the discount offer is available
on your Xbox One."

You can read more on this
HERE.

Hello!

Thanks for reaching out to us here on the forums with this situation. I understand you have Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition and were interested in upgrading to the Minecraft Xbox One Edition. I would recommend you set your Minecraft saved data from the Xbox 360
into Cloud saved games.
Transfer Minecraft worlds on Xbox consoles Try it out and give us a reply with how it goes.

Ok let me try to explain it the other way around. Between different platform's i can get the point. But if you upgrade Windows from xp to vista, w7, w8 and to w10 i don't have to rebuy minecraft everytime. The software structure between xbox one and xbox
360 is basicly based on the same principle. It's a upgrade with better hardware making it possible to get better videographics. [...]

Looking from that point it's complete [Mod Removed - Profanity] that microsoft lets their users pay for an upgraded version of Minecraft... I allready paid
for it. Their nothing more then a bunch of wolves trying to make as much money on us players [...].

Well, your analogy is wrong.

Updating your Windows from XP to Vista and so on up to Windows 10 would be like going from a cheap DVD player to a higher class DVD player. But you are staying within the same format.

Going from a Xbox 360 to the Xbox One is like going from a video cassette player to a BluRay Player. You can't insert your VHS tapes in your BluRay player either, and have to buy your movies again.

There WAS a limited timed offer where owners of the Xbox 360 Minecraft could get the Minecraft Xbox One Edition cheaper. However that offer ended.

Then Microsoft replaced the "Minecraft Xbox One Edition" with the "Minecraft" (Bedrock Edition). If you had gotten the Xbox One Edition digitally, you CAN get the Minecraft Bedrock Edition for free, as this is the upgrade path that you know from the PC.

Should the Xbox 360 Minecraft version become backwards compatible on the Xbox One, you will be able to download that for free.

However, it will only be the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, and will be lacking the Xbox One/PC/Mobile/Switch Minecraft Bedrock updates like the Update Aquatic and the recent Cats and Pandas update.

So you see: The Xbox One Minecraft is a completely different version as the Xbox 360 version, and therefore has to be bought again.