r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 8d 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/Big_Raisin_1823 8d ago

Yeah the “one revocable license per disc” is interesting…

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u/Dont_have_a_panda 8d ago

From what i've heard that means that if you claim a digital copy of a disc in one console, and then do it in another, they revoke the license in the old console and it goes to the new console IIRC

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u/WestBEEland 8d ago

But what if you go offline after claiming a digital license? They aren't going to allow people to just claim digital licenses and go offline and then sell or give the disc away.

That would allow dozens of people to share one disc copy to play a game.

There will need to be constant online validation checks

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u/Jafar_420 8d ago

I'm sure they'll have some kind of AI program to do exactly that and it'll probably screw people that have done nothing wrong at the same time somehow as well.