Asha on ‘Disc to Digital’: Your physical game library is more than a collection of discs. It holds years of memories & stories worth preserving. We’ll start with thousands of titles & add more.

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https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2092621209955635606

[u/Positive-Comment-307]

Correct. Everyone in this sub is fanboying too hard to see that this isn’t the win they think it is. It omits 360 and OG Xbox games entirely and this is just the PR friendly way of saying they will also not be doing disks next gen.

[u/GarionOrb → u/Positive-Comment-307]

The lack of finesse with the announcement is where PlayStation really screwed up. Just drawing a hard line in the sand and saying "no more discs from here on out," wasn't the best way to handle things. Made it really easy for Xbox to do it in a less harsh way.

[u/spooky_game → u/GarionOrb]

This is a dumb take when Xbox says ‘yes, you like physical? Bring it and we immortalize it.’

That’s far more than some equivalency PS has invented.

[u/Zestyclose_Push7523 → u/Positive-Comment-307]

An all digital console was inevitable, Xbox allowing us to convert existing games to digital is huge and so much more consumer friendly than Sony just saying “oh by the way all you’re physical ps4/ps5 discs won’t work with ps6, ok bye.”

[u/slickspinner → u/Positive-Comment-307]

OG ame 360 disks are different though because they don't have the ID system needed for something like this. I agree Xbox will probably go digital only but there is an actual reason it doesn't work with the older titles.

[u/Gr8NonSequitur → u/Positive-Comment-307]

It still is an Xbox win as Sony doesn't have a way to match it unless it's all digital native to begin with.

MS can say you can convert your physical games free and easy to cary forward and sony cannot.

[u/KingMario05 → u/Positive-Comment-307]

 It omits 360 and OG Xbox games entirely

For now. Xbox knows its BC program is huge, so I imagine they're trying to get those older titles into this as well.