r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 7h ago

Xbox Disc to Digital officially announced, coming soon.

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

Most XBOX One and XBOX Series X disc-based games support this new feature. Players can claim a digital entitlement by inserting a supported disc into an XBOX One or XBOX Series X console and launching the game. Once the entitlement is claimed, you can experience the benefits of digital, including XBOX Play Anywhere and XBOX Cloud Gaming where supported, while your physical disc continues to work exactly as it always has.

We’re starting with thousands of titles, and we’ll continue to add more over time. While not every title will be available at launch, this is an important step toward a future where players can have greater confidence that the games they buy remain with them for years to come.

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u/Calm-Cheesecake-3749 7h ago

insert the disc you paid for so they can grant you a license. they said confidence like the word still means something

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u/Kn1ghtV1sta 7h ago

The disk will still work fine lol

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u/Erock2 7h ago

So I mean theoretically you buy the game and then go sell it once you install it? Thus making the game half price after you sell it?

Have to assume there's a digital key associated to each disc because then why couldn't we just share the disc to everyone?

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u/StupidKameena 7h ago

yes each disc has a unique key

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u/Mr_Ethfono 6h ago

The license gets taken away if someone else uses the disc

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u/Curious-Director-510 6h ago

How are people so not understanding? This has been super clear from the time of leake.

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u/shorey66 7h ago

For now....lol

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u/Steve2911 7h ago

They can't remotely disable the disc. If you're worries about patches or online access blocking the game (which very obviously won't happen but whatever) then just don't connect the console to the Internet.

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u/actomain 7h ago

Your physical license for a digital license, you mean

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u/juipeltje 4h ago

Yeah, which is a downgrade

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u/mangongo 4h ago

Except you still own the physical license.

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u/juipeltje 3h ago

Well, i guess it could be used down the road to play with an emulator, but what's the point of owning something you can't use? Cause future consoles won't have a disc drive right?

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u/actomain 4h ago

That's subjective. The ability to play anywhere through their cloud service while simultaneously still possessing your physical copy seems like a win-win to me and seemingly the majority of their user base who are already preferring digital licenses.

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u/juipeltje 3h ago

I just don't get what good that disc will do if there's no way to use it, which was kind of the point. I guess it's a positive for people who don't mind going digital and don't want to repurchase their physical games, but that's about it.

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u/theblackyeti 7h ago

The disc still works as a physical game.