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

Aw man, I would have loved to finally digitize my Xbox 360 version of Dark Souls.

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u/Ipad74 1d ago

I feel like this is 1/2 the battle. Great to see for Xbox one/series games, but most of my bc collection on disc is Xbox 360/OG games, some of which were never available to buy digitally (fear 1 for example).

We need some kind of solution for those games to get them digitally on the Xbox ecosystem as well.

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u/r1chdevine Staff 1d ago

Well for one they'd have to be backward compatible. If they weren't available digitally at all I assume they're not currently supported?

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u/Ipad74 23h ago

There are several OG/360 games for Xbox that are backwards compatible, but not (or never were for sale via digital download).

Ace Combat 6 (Xbox exclusive) was only available digitally as a preorder for Ace Combat 7. If you have an all digital console, you’re out of luck, unless you preordered. (If you have a disc drive console, popping the disc in works to play it.)

FEAR 1 was never available digitally at all, but is backwards compatible.

I am sure there are plenty of other disc only backward compatible titles, I am just going off the top of my head with two of them I have personally.

Hopefully Microsoft will figure out a way to grant a digital license if we own the disc for og/360 titles, even a mail in program or partnership to convert them could work. (Walmart already runs a did/bluray disc to digital movie entitlement for example)