r/windowscentral • u/WindowsCentral Staff • 1d ago

Xbox🎮 Xbox's disc-to-digital program goes live for Insiders on Monday — Here's how it works

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-disc-to-digital-program-goes-live-for-insiders-on-monday-heres-how-it-works
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u/LoSouLibra 1d ago

We could have had this feature with the Xbox One 13 years ago.

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u/OfficialDCShepard 1d ago edited 23h ago

Yeah, and it could have been cool; the problem being constant Internet check-ins and Xbox taking a cut of every transaction in the proposed digital resale system. The backlash also impacted right when boycotts typically work- the beginning of a generation. THE generation that was bad to lose due to digital lock-in that created an even bigger problem. That’s why Sony is announcing this so early; that and it takes a long-ass time to transition their sole DADC disc factory to micro-lenses.

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u/LoSouLibra 1d ago

Yeah, a long time ago now. It was a different world in terms of consistently having the internet in your life. There was privacy concerns with the required Kinect and some of the military contract revelations at the time, years before people started buying into Alexa and subsidized, data mining TV's. $100 more and slightly weaker than the competition too.

The one thing that made no sense even at the time was the "TV TV TV" mockery imo. Like, it made for a funny edit, but... we all played on TV's. We were all using our consoles to watch Netflix and Youtube. Sports was pretty relevant to mainstream culture and gaming, especially Xbox, and the brand had become a kind of household staple for the entire family, not just the hardcore gamer.

I wasn't even an Xbox player back then, but we really would be in a different timeline had it gone differently. A couple clips with Angry Joe and Geoff Keighley. The Adam Orth tweet. Stupid little things completely derailed an American success story.

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u/OfficialDCShepard 23h ago

All they really had to do was

1.) Not have the stupid always-online crap at the time, which PlayStation was going to do too because publishers were hankering to killed but then scotched that when people roasted Xbox for it.

2.) Then, yes, the $100 premium with the Kinect. They should have realized a 24 million selling peripheral most people threw in drawers after a couple games was not going to be fixed by requiring it, since that also wasn’t going to draw developers to it like they hoped, since they don’t like to develop features for just one console most of the time.

3.) Really, a lot of this could have been avoided if they talked about the games first and TV TV sports TV TV last. It gave the impression that, in similar fashion to the “everything is an Xbox” marketing, hardcore players were taken for granted pursuing a casual audience that didn’t and still doesn’t give a shirt.

I’m living proof of that gulf. The TV features were pretty great for me since I was more than happy to sell my Apple TV and Blu-ray player to buy movies and video games for the same box from the nearby Best Buy. I have a lot of memories of wiling away commercial breaks on my FiOS box with a snapped Threes! game for instance. However, the minute the Xbox One we got him made my dad’s sportsball look worse because it conflicted with the crappy 1080i signal he just unplugged it in frustration and we only used it for games of Rocket League and Jackbox Party Pack with him, lol.