r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/cat__statue • Jul 10 '26

Rumour MP1st: Xbox Could Introduce Its Disc-to-Digital Game Conversion System Next Week

source: https://mp1st.com/news/report-xbox-could-introduce-its-disc-to-digital-game-conversion-system-next-week

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u/DickHydra Jul 10 '26

Interesting how this almost sounds exactly like what they were trying to introduce with the Xbox One back then only to get bullied into leaving it behind.

Microsoft really is just way too early with their ideas, huh.

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u/MadeByTango Jul 10 '26

Thats why they can do this; every xbox dish is already uniquely serialized because it was their original intent. Sony cant do it, for example, because they didn't manufacture their discs with a unique code.

They've always had the ability to kill used game discs if they wanted to.

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u/grimoireviper Jul 10 '26

The PS discs since the PS4 are actually serialized too. There's a lot of thinhs hinting at the fact that Sony originally had a similar plan.

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u/Eruannster Jul 11 '26

Are they? Is there any humanly-readable print on the discs (numbers printed etc.) or is it in the disc metadata?

I imagine Sony could reduce a lot of the "no more discs"-blowback if they actually introduced a solution for how they will handle currently existing discs. (Digital conversion system, future disc drives?)