Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection

[iamthemilkman]

Xbox employees recently started testing this new feature, after references to “enable Disc2Digital” appeared in the Xbox PC app code in May. I’m told that Microsoft’s disc-to-digital feature will work on Xbox One and Xbox Series X discs only, and not those for the Xbox 360 or original Xbox console.

Getting a digital copy of a game works simply by inserting a compatible disc and installing and playing the game. This will require a Microsoft account on an Xbox console and will grant a digital entitlement for physical games. This digital entitlement is tied to the specific disc, and it will move from account to account if you swap the physical game with a friend or log in to a different Xbox profile and try to play a disc-based game.

The digital entitlement for a physical Xbox game is similar to buying the title from Microsoft’s digital store. If the game is available on Xbox Cloud Gaming and you have a Game Pass subscription, you’ll be able to stream it. If it’s an Xbox Play Anywhere title, you’ll also be able to access it on PCs and handhelds.

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[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

That's a good thing for sure.

It's also what I do with my modded PS3 when I play a game often enough to resent inserting the disc over and over again.

 

[Ikagura]

What happens to the disc itself?

 

[RageBurner]

They want to make existing physical discs useless in the long run to further lock people into volatile digital, mark my words.

 

[CraigJinx]

Bullshit, just another way to eliminate psychical discs and so you own nothing, I mean why would you transfer the disc and then keep the disc? There would be no point doing that so you would get rid of it. Needing an account to do this just means they can then remove that game from your library if they so choose at some point in time.

 

[Bakuma1997]

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

That's a good thing for sure.

It's also what I do with my modded PS3 when I play a game often enough to resent inserting the disc over and over again.

same, though not just the PS3. Basically every console I use.

 

[CraigJinx]

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That scaremongering advert always made me laugh back in the day, the movie industry is one of the biggest thieves on the planet not just of ideas but lives.

 

[Leon]

I would do this for exactly 4 games, lost odyssey, blue dragon, infinite undescovery and N3 Ninety nine nights, everything else i can play on my pc without issue.

But yeah this is a push to force digital, neither console maker seems to realize that pc got away with it due to piracy guaranteeing you have a copy even if something happened to the storefront, ps6 and helix won't.