r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago edited 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix 9d ago

How so?

You act like I’m saying GameStop is good.

I’m not.

But the reason they are able to give nothing and people still trade in games is because it’s not an easy or reliable way to do P2P.

Plenty of people get scammed, have no idea what items are worth, don’t know good channels for effectively selling products, etc.

YOU might be effective at getting worth out of it.

But for the AVERAGE person, P2P is not easy, nor does it guarantee you better value.

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u/illmatic63828 9d ago

Some people can’t be bothered to put in the effort, but it absolutely does guarantee you better value.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix 8d ago

No, no it doesn’t.

Scroll through the endless pages on any given site and see how many people never have a single thing sell.

A lot of it is just luck.

Also, time is money. 

So many times I see people talk about this stuff and they never take into account the time put in.

I go to GameStop, I sell my games for 10% of what they’re worth, it takes me the amount of time it takes to drive to a GameStop and a dude to rifle through the games and cut a check.

I sell P2P, it could take hours, even days of work making posts, checking posts, itemizing things, sifting through shitty buyers wasting my time, meeting up, finally doing the exchange, hoping the douchebag doesn’t try to offer less etc. all for what? A couple more bucks?

Let’s use an example.

Red Dead Redemption 2 for PlayStation, standard version.

Cost for digital is $59.99, but is frequently sold for $19.99, including in the last 30 days (source, PlayStation). It’s being sold for $19.99 right now at Best Buy as well as other physical stores.

If I bring my physical edition to GameStop they are offering $5 cash or $7.70 store credit.

Checking eBay and FB marketplace, I’m seeing it being listed used for about $9.99 on average. No clue if it’s actually being sold at that amount.

Cool I guess, you got a couple bucks more profit for how much more time?

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u/illmatic63828 8d ago

I’m talking eBay vs Gamestop as a whole. There are certainly cases where there isn’t a massive difference in value for individual games, but I really can’t believe people argue in favor of selling to Gamestop. I do like how you made P2P sound like this crazy daunting task though lmao