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It appears that the prices of some digital Xbox One games have taken a bit of a leap up over the weekend, without any sort of explanation as to why.

Titles that were available for preorder on Friday for £44.99 - Halo 5: Guardians and Rise of the Tomb Raider most noticeably - are now at the £49.99 mark.

In a world where the £44.99 pricepoint already had the digital version weighing in at £5.92 more expensive than the converted US price and where pricing is listed as the main reason that people won't switch to digital, this is hardly what's needed. This means that it now costs 20% less to purchase a physical copy of a game when compared to the digital version, even via one of the traditionally most expensive UK retailers, GAME. That's no attack on them at all. They just usually stick to the RRP when it comes to pricing new games.

They'll let you preorder Rise of the Tomb Raider for £39.99 and that comes with the equivalent of £3.20 of in-store reward points and the ability to trade the game in down the road.

It isn't all that hard to see why people aren't all that eager to switch, given that things like this are going on. It also creates a bit of a rift in the space-time continuum, given that you can still purchase the downloadable version of Halo 5: Guardians from GAME for £44.99, whereas buying it direct from the Xbox Store will cost £49.99.

Bizarre.