Inside the All Digital Xbox One #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin it's always an

exciting day when our friends at

Microsoft drop off a brand new console

and this well this is uh technically

all-new console this is the Xbox 1s all

digital version sadly they didn't go

with my title of the Xbox one D but as

you can see here this Xbox has exactly

zero disk drives of any kind it's

actually all over the box I mean they've

got it

discs free gaming they had a little icon

here I mean even when you go to open it

up there's a piece of tape saying disc

free gameplay aka

please don't buy this and return to the

store when you realize that you can't

put your discs in it know about a disc

drive you cannot do any physical gains

on the Xbox one s you are going to need

to rely on downloading them which to be

fair I think a lot of people do these

days

I know ever since the Xbox one and ps4

came out I pretty much entirely switched

over to buying them digitally now there

was the PSP go what 10 years ago now

which was a similar concept but that's a

little bit too far ahead of its time I

think these days a lot more people are

interested in the idea of just

downloading your games it's much easier

to move across different platforms

especially a lot of the games these days

on Xbox also do work on the Windows PC

side of things as long as don't and I in

dealing with the almost like games for

Windows the Microsoft Store what do they

call it and I actually will mention that

even though this obviously looks very

very similar to the one as it is not

replacing in the line you will continue

to be able to buy the one as the one X

and you also have the one as digital

edition all digital edition well the

very first thing I can notice it's

lighter which I guess makes sense if

there's not an Ultra HD blu-ray player

inside here is the console itself now it

looks very similar except it it looks so

weird like it just it's the exact same

thing in fact I should grab a 1s if you

put these two side-by-side

it is completely identical looking so I

mean all the vents are the same on the

side you've got the same top vent I mean

there's really no difference in any way

except that they just changed out that

piece of plastic here no one perk to

buying the all digital version is the

Yoshi gets in pretty decent included

games so there's a copy of Forza horizon

3 we have to see if these and we also

have minecraft now this is all great but

the 1s all digital edition does not

exist in a vacuum because it is being

sold alongside the 1s it has to compete

with that so the real problem here

is price the all-digital edition costs

$250 MSRP which sounds good considering

that that is $50 less than the standard

version of the 1s however it does not

take much searching to find a lot of 1s

is well below that on Amazon for example

there's one that is 220 even 230 with a

game that's pretty solid like

battlefield 1 included that that's a

little bit of a problem by the way if

you want these game codes feel free to

go for it although you better be fast if

you can buy a 1s for the same price or

cheaper than the old digital version

then do it I mean it's literally the

exact same thing except it has an Ultra

HD blu-ray drive now there's a lot of

people I think which will be very happy

to use the old digital version right I

mean if you're not using discs you're

not watching blu-rays and stuff there

really is no advantage to having that

extra $50 disk drive included but the

price is really where it comes down

right I mean if you don't get this at a

cheaper price than the 1s it is a

completely ridiculous thing to ever

purchase so if you're buying an Xbox one

today these are your three options so

starting out with a 200gr price tag is

the Xbox 1s all digital now just like

with you want s which comes in at $300

it does support 4k video even though the

gaming side of things is definitely

little bit more on the 1080p side of the

resolution but besides the blu-ray drive

which is of course missing on the all

digital version these are completely

identical ports power performance all of

that kind of stuff now if you step up

over to the Xbox one X it also does have

the Ultra HD blu-ray drive 4k support

and all that kind of thing the main

difference here is that this is a much

more powerful console the One X is able

to play most games at a very easy 4k and

especially with games such as Red Dead

Redemption when you put these consoles

side-by-side The One X looks so so much

better but I think it's like double the

price so so from what I've been told the

internals of the all digital version are

essentially the same as the one as

mostly to keep costs down but that

doesn't mean I don't want to actually

see this for myself now you may recall a

video we did when they want as first

came out where we took a little peek on

the inside now I'm a student it should

be a pretty similar experience a lot

it's so imbalanced Wow

like all the weight is definitely here

like this that's got to be Hollow so

after removing our warranty avoid

sticker and working out this little

plastic piece on bottom we should be

able to get it out now

you know the same part that I got like

freaked out about last time there we go

so after removing a bunch of screws I

think the case should just come away now

hey okay alright so that's enough pieces

of Xbox for one day well I guess there's

here's the first difference there's

obviously a new metal piece here to

cover up where the disk drive used to be

something tells me Microsoft they didn't

want you to be looking at this like no

no no we're uh not hiding anything here

alright now with that yep okay all that

huh I wonder where the disk drive used

to be just a little bracket here and

that's literally it

so we still see the same 1 terabyte hard

drive from before you have the internal

power supply as well as the fan but

where there used to be a disk drive no

disk drive so we have fan number one

power supply number three hard drive

number four and disk drive number two

yeah so to be fair I don't really want

to be that mean on Microsoft they're not

trying to hide what they're doing here

at all this is a 1s that they've removed

the disk drive for and they've

essentially passed that savings on to

you now sure what I have liked to have

seen a different form factor I mean with

this kind of empty space they could have

very easily made this something you know

even if you just rotate the hard drive

me it would have been at least a little

bit smaller but realistically I mean

what they're doing here is not trying to

make the smallest Xbox they can what

they're trying to do is make the

cheapest one possible when you consider

that by removing that Ultra HD blu-ray

drive and you're losing $50 from the

price that kind of adds up I mean

they're pretty much just passing it

right on to you interesting so there is

an additional SATA port here on the

board which makes sense because they

didn't change it I wonder if you could

install your own blu-ray drive I mean

theoretically I would think it would

work oh you could try to install another

hard drive I mean there's definitely

room for it you have to come up with

your own mount but theoretically I mean

with that SATA port but you know what do

you think this is actually gonna

recognize the second internal hard drive

I don't think it will ok so actually I

don't think a second hard drive will

work so you do have the SATA cable and

you have the power but it's a

proprietary pinout which means that now

I can you not use another one as cable

you essentially would have to make your

own now in the software nothing seems to

be all that different

I'm curious can actually install the

blu-ray player how's that you gonna do

it it says queued up

what happens if we open up the blu-ray

player oh okay alright well you know

there's no a shot right like I said

before you should expect the exact same

level of performance from the 1s as you

hit on the all digital edition that

means that most games are going to be

running between 720 and 1080 it's not

going to look as nice as the 1x but you

do get the same advantages of being able

to play like 4k Netflix and whatnot or

and you also can die in cup head that's

still possible the Xbox one as all

digital version is an interesting

console there's a big part of me that

wishes that this was at least a little

bit of a different form factors that

they took advantage of the lack of disk

space to kind of shrink it but I

understand what they were going for here

this is not a slim version of the

console this is not a replacement for

the 1s this is very simply a cheaper

version of the Xbox one that we already

have

if this sees the same kind of price case

that the 1s has and it lands up being

$200 or less I think it's a really

compelling deal however if it's $200 and

the 1s is cheaper than that yeah good

luck with that