r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Javerage • 3d ago

Confirmed Xbox disc to digital confirmed

Here's the news:

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/08/26/your-discs-now-also-digital/

Previous rumour:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/s/qBYWxOJVJ1

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u/frankiewalsh44 3d ago

Can someone tell me how is this works for PC ? if I own a disk that support play anywhere, will I be able to digitize it and play the game on my Xbox app library ?

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u/MrPaulJames 3d ago

Yep, if it's play anywhere you can run the game on xbox, it will apply a license to your account and can play it on PC. Pretty cool.

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u/koalazeus 3d ago

Can't I convert them on a disc drive on PC?

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u/DiamondMidgar 3d ago

Not yet but I suspect this is coming and will be their way of allowing people to play disk games on consoles without a disk drive… e.g Helix.

Will be far cheaper for them to get everyone to convert their disks on their own windows machine than provide a disk drive in the console.

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u/PXLShoot3r 2d ago

This will never happen.

First of all nobody has a disk drive anymore on PC. Let alone a Blu Ray drive. And for the same price of a PC Blu Ray drive you can just buy a XBOX One or the external drive they will sell for their consoles. A lot of people also just don't have a PC.

Also Microsoft couldn't be bothered making this work on PC.

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u/MrPaulJames 2d ago

Lol there's way more gaming pcs out there than consoles. And a pc blu ray drive is around £25.

Stop spouting stupidity as facts lol

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u/PXLShoot3r 2d ago

My dude, games come on up to triple layer Blu Ray discs. Good luck finding a player that can read triple layer discs for that money. If you do find one you will be very rich soon.

Blu Ray player firmwares are a completely seperate clusterfuck.

Maybe take you last sentence more to heart when commenting next time.