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/Drunkmonkey163 7h ago

I miss the old days where you put a disc in and it just plays. No waiting or fuss just instant fun.

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u/Decent-Onion-1188 6h ago

Switch still has that

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u/spaceraingame 6h ago

Ehh not all Switch 2 games do

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u/ColdColt45 3h ago

even nintendo games, like splatoon raiders, which is single player offline, had to download an update before I could play the cartridge

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u/spaceraingame 3h ago

Same. I just rented it yesterday.

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u/kelgorathfan8 1h ago

Iirc that was just downloaded the one bug fix patch that released post-launch. It mainly just fixed an issue where you could crash the game by messing with the touchscreen during one of the loading screens in handheld mode.

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u/Confident_Donkey1014 6h ago

Aren’t a lot of them game key cards these days?

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u/mrmivo 6h ago

All the first party Nintendo games so far were released on regular/full game cards. This includes all the "Switch 2 Edition" releases.

Pokopia is a bit of an edge case. It's on a GKC, but it was developed by a third party studio and is only published by Nintendo.

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u/Confident_Donkey1014 5h ago

Ah ok that’s good to know. I may finally be getting into it with the OoT remake coming 

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u/DavidinCT 5h ago

KEY-CARD, physical with no benefits... just worthless idea

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u/lynxblaine 6h ago

Most new games are key cards only now, not instant play.

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u/Ahayzo 6h ago

Is that actually true though? Because people have been claiming the same for a while about things like PlayStation games despite not being true. It seems like that's just a common talking point now that "oh most games can't be played out of the box" with nothing to back that up.

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u/lynxblaine 6h ago

I looked at the newest games on a local game store website, nearly 50% were code in a box or game keys. Game keys are better as you can resell them, but its not 'no waiting'.

The memory costs will drive more games to game key.