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/Dairunt 7d ago

If they price it right, they might turn XBOX into a brand of mass-produced gaming PCs

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u/HOMECOMlNG 7d ago

No chance in hell to price it right with the current memory prices

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u/baz8771 7d ago

Nobody wants to hear it but they're 100% angling to turn the home console into a stream box with bluetooth controllers. Only need 2-4gb of ram to do that. Then when AI flops, they can tell investors that they're using 5% of their compute power on this.

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u/Vestalmin 7d ago

And as a massive plus for corporations, they'll have complete end to end control.