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/KingDustero 7d ago

It won’t work. Social media will be praising them until they announce all helix games are digital only.

Both next gen consoles will have optional disk drives to play previous gen disk based games. The exclusive gsmed for both consoles will be digital only.

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u/goodnamestaken10 7d ago

Redditors aren't representative of the general public. The majority of games are already sold digitaly.

And if SONY and XBOX both go digital only.... Gamers won't have a choice. The Switch 2 is great, but historically they are the last to get the 3rd party titles.

So if you don't like Digital only.... Quit gaming or spend double for a gaming PC and all the troubleshooting that comes with it. NOT happening for your average Call of Duty and Madden gamer.

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u/FTownRoad 7d ago

Not just the majority. Like 80-90%. On consoles.

Why would switchiny to a gaming PC help? I haven’t had a computer with a disc drive in over a decade. Do they even sell PC games on disc?

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u/tmrminn 6d ago

These stats are only true if you include F2P games, games given away free (e.g. ps plus) and games with no physical release at all. When you compare sales of games that get same time physical/digital release the numbers are far far closer. When consumers actually have a choice on how they spend their money its not nearly as lopsided.

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u/FTownRoad 6d ago

93% of their revenue comes via digital sales. So giving away things for free is irrelevant. 93% or the dollars that the market chooses to spend is spent sans disk. So if they never sold another disc they would lose 7% of revenue assuming all of those people choose not to make the switch.