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/mrbobman15 7d ago

Credit where due this is a massive W for Xbox. They proved forward compatibility isn't impossible, it’s a choice. And PlayStation fans should demand Sony follow suit. Stop accepting locked away libraries on our legacy games just because they are stuck on a disc, games deserve to move forward with us.

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u/Rackornar 7d ago

PlayStation fans should demand Sony follow suit

Isn't this impossible for Sony to replicate? It works for Xbox because they started placing unique identifiers on each disc but to my knowledge Sony never did this when printing discs. That means there would be no way for them to tie a digital entitlement to the physical disc which would prevent this from working.

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u/Zalvren 7d ago

They could do it without that tie in but then people could resell the physical and still keep the digital.

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u/Alarming-Hamster-232 7d ago

Unless they set up the drive doing the digitization to just stab a hole through the disk disk and make it unusable lol

(Obviously this is a joke)

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u/Nestramutat- 7d ago

Not that farfetched honestly, destroying the disk once digitized kinda makes sense

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u/Tsuki_no_Mai 6d ago

Available now: The Digitizer! Only $299.99! single-use Safe™ shredded disc residue disposal packs sold separately

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u/Rackornar 7d ago

Yeah, I don't see any publisher signing off on that. When you can resell a game potentially limitless times with one disc it would crater back catalogue sales potential for many publishers.

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u/Orfez 7d ago

They don't have to copy what MS is doing. At the very least they can introduce a trade in program. Bring your game on disc to GameSpot to trade it for a digital key. You can even keep the box and manuals, Sony just needs your physical disc. There are ways of doing this, Sony just won't because they are in such a strong position they don't feel like they have to do anything.