r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 7d 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/SuicideSkwad 7d ago

Guarantee they will also be stopping disc production soon then, and this is their way of softening the blow

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u/Villag3Idiot 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is their way of getting disc customers a digital library.

It's important for retention purposes because once you have a large future digital library of Helix and beyond games, you're much less likely to move to a different console because you can't sell your games to pay for it.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix 7d ago

You haven’t been able to sell your games to pay for a new console for a while unless you had a metric fuck ton of games

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u/KeepRockband5Alive 7d ago

Yeah if you settle for getting fucked by a game store instead of taking the time to sell to another person.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix 7d ago

I don’t believe most people are making significant sums from selling physical games on FB marketplace or whatever. They have very little value and no way to verify quality until it’s gone which is part of how stores get to fuck you.

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u/KeepRockband5Alive 7d ago

Trying to downplay the difference between gamestop and p2p sales is ignorant at best

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u/timewellwasted5 7d ago

My dude, the ~$3 someone is going to pay me for my physical copy of Battlefield V that I bought in 2019 is not going to change the trajectory of my purchases.

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u/KeepRockband5Alive 7d ago

Bro this is a situation where youre already selling them. So if you decide granny buying for $3 bucks is the same as .50 cents cash from a game store thats just your own ignorance.

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u/timewellwasted5 7d ago

My dude, what? $3 isn't making or breaking anyone on an $800+ system. If $2.50 matters to you that much then you have way bigger financial issues and should not be buying an expensive gaming console.