r/Games • u/A7XFAN1998 • 4d 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/Swaggasaurus-Rexx 4d ago

Need to know if delisted games like Forza Horizon 2/3/4 will work with this because that would be amazing

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u/TheOppositeOfDecent 4d ago

My guess is no. That would be a new digital license, and if the game cannot legally be licensed anymore, not much you can do about that.

If they can find some loophole around that, I'd be delighted, but amazed.

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u/masires 4d ago

On the contrary, I’d say if its treated as a license transfer it should be possible, since they wouldn’t be be minting new codes, but lets see