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Sony company announcement PlayStation game discs will be phased out starting in 2028 It was seemingly a precursor to the end of physical media in gaming. What Microsoft is said to be testing for Xbox could be the death knell.
Microsoft reportedly has a new feature being tested that would allow physical Xbox Series and Xbox One games to be given a digital copy, according to a report. Edge Wednesday. The disc-to-digital feature, referred to in the code as “Disc2Digital enabled”, allows owners to have a digital copy of the game when the disc is inserted into their console. This copy will be linked to your Microsoft account on the console and will be available to play on other devices, such as PC or mobile devices, via the Xbox Play Anywhere feature.
The report also says that if a game is available for Xbox Cloud Gaming and the owner also has a Microsoft account Pass game subscriptionThis game can be streamed directly to the device without having to take up hard disk space.
The disc-to-digital feature works with Xbox Series and Xbox One games, although some Xbox One games have issues; No specific titles were mentioned in the report. The Disc to Digital feature will reportedly not work with Xbox 360 or original Xbox games. Multi-disc titles and games bundled with consoles will also benefit from this feature, and any available downloadable content via disc will be included in the digital edition.
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After adding a digital copy to the account, the physical disc will still work. If someone sells or lends the disc, that person will lose the digital copy because they will move to their new console or Xbox account.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request to confirm the feature.
The Xbox One console has a planned digital library feature similar to the reported disc-to-digital feature.
Back in 2013, when Microsoft unveiled Xbox One at E3has made plans to create a digital library similar to this planned feature that would allow owners of physical copies to have a digital copy of their games that can be loaned out. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the messaging surrounding this feature was not clear to gamers, causing significant backlash from the company Reversing course in her plans It seems to kill the momentum the company achieved in eighth generation consoles after the success of the Xbox 360.
At the time, physical media dominated digital sales, but that has since changed. In 2025, sales of game discs $1.5 billion in the United Statesaccording to retail analytics firm Circana, instead Global gaming content sales for the year totaled $195.6 billion.
