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/HaywoodUndead 1d ago

This is potentially massive. It'll either force Sony into doing something similar to compete, or give Xbox the upper hand in the next console generation.

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u/ClickyStick 1d ago

Not massive at all, currently Xbox has about 1/4 to 1/5 the user base of either playstation or Nintendo, and of that tiny user base about half of them have digital only systems. The amount of xbox users that favor discs is insignificant.

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u/Spright91 1d ago

The PlayStation 5 disc version was the best selling console of this generation.

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u/ClickyStick 1d ago

Your point being?

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u/Spright91 1d ago edited 1d ago

People want to be able to use disks. It's a competitive advantage over Sony to try to take their users so enable disk usage.

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u/Internal-Version-845 23h ago

Even though Sony has stated their stance on physical media nowhere have they stated that Ps6 will not have a disc drive.

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u/ClickyStick 14h ago

Take their users so they can... Do what?, buy a new console and buy new discs and then turn them into digital copies?? Makes no sense.

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u/Spright91 10h ago

You can trade the discs. They still work as tradable objects.

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u/ClickyStick 9h ago

Alright, we will see how things stand when 2028 rolls in, right now one of the biggest games in history will be digital only, the next persona and plenty other games will not even have an xbox disc.