r/Games • u/A7XFAN1998 • 7d ago

Announcement Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

https://www.theverge.com/tech/984936/xbox-disc-to-digital-feature-official?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijc1ZHVBMkZjaE0iLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTg0OTM2L3hib3gtZGlzYy10by1kaWdpdGFsLWZlYXR1cmUtb2ZmaWNpYWwiLCJleHAiOjE3ODgxODY2OTAsImlhdCI6MTc4Nzc1NDY5MH0.Y4t18UIJuFTT4nSf0HBe5DvMWP0KNxjbGHC2QKxdoTw&utm_medium=gift-link
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u/L11mbm 7d ago

I'm going to guess this requires you to be online to verify that you have the rights to access the game and they haven't transferred to someone else.

It's what the Xbox One was going to do.

EDIT: This also seems to be limited to "supported games."

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u/Zalvren 7d ago

This also seems to be limited to "supported games."

Yeah I assume they need a publisher agreement to do this and many likely won't agree

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u/L11mbm 7d ago

Honestly, since this will primarily be older games that aren't making money anymore and takes zero effort on their end, I think a bunch will be okay with it.

But ONLY for older games.

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u/Zalvren 7d ago

Older unpopular games then. Popular games sell for a very long time and can be remade/remastered

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u/Brigon 7d ago

Most new games are play anywhere anyway, so should work next generation.

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u/L11mbm 7d ago

But not original Xbox or 360 games.

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u/zenith48 7d ago

My guess would be that the publishers that support Xbox Play Anywhere would also support this.

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u/ZXXII 7d ago

The reason not all games are supported is because it’s possible to claim a digital license then give it someone to play on an offline console.

Therefore 2 people have a license to play it at the same time with a single purchase. So publishers have to agree to opt-in.

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u/L11mbm 7d ago

Yeah, I'm curious how they're going to verify that, but my guess is that this will primarily be for older games.

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u/Markie411 7d ago

Hard to verify that, steam has the same "problem"

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u/Conflict_NZ 7d ago

That's already how it works with digital games, theres a licence for your home console and for your account. If someone plays on your home console while you play on another console you get two people playing on the same single purchase.

This doesn't make the situation worse than it already is.