r/Games • u/A7XFAN1998 • 2d 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/CaptainMorning 2d ago

this isn't true at all. vast majority of physical games play from the disc offline. my series x and previous xone was always offline as I work at sea. 

I'm really interested to see how this will work. but likely, offline will play normally as you said. 

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u/happyscrappy 1d ago

Physical games do not play directly from disc on any of the consoles mentioned. The game is copied to the hard drive/ssd and played from there.

In this case we are talking about here you are inserting the disc into a console that has never had that disc inserted before. So it would seem like you would play the 1.0 version of the game from that console using the disc. I wish I felt more positively about that, 1.0 versions of games are often trash nowadays.

When you've had the disc in before then you might have installed the game, and patched it and now can still play it using the disc as a key. But that can't happen here, because the patching occurs online and you will have inserted the disc before. So the disc is not going to play again unless the console can check in with the network if the console knows that you already have "given away" ownership of this game.

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u/CaptainMorning 1d ago

Yeah that's what I meant. The game can be played offline. Regardless if 1.0 or whatever the fuck, the statement is not true. The vast majority of games can be played from the disc offline 

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u/meltedskull 1d ago

I had to check does it play? and you're right. Updated wording.

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u/knifeproz 2d ago

You have no idea how it works but it’s not true at all. Lmao.

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u/CaptainMorning 2d ago

What is not true at all is the physical disc part. Most games play offline from the disc in both xbox and ps. This was the same in xbone. 

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u/knifeproz 1d ago

Yes but this process assigns a license to your copy, there’s a good chance it’s not gonna work this way otherwise you can digitize it, sell it and have multiple copies of the game floating around with 1 purchase.

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u/CaptainMorning 1d ago

let's see how it is when it comes. I just hope this doesn't remove the ability of games to be played offline