Comment on Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
how does a disc to digital feature work without the reader to actually read the disc. This seems weird. I assume its either going to be used as a service they provide, meaning that they take the disk and give you the digital form, or an additional piece of hardware that you have to buy on top of it, but instead of it just reading the disc like a normal disk , it copies to digital like how the VHS recorders worked.
phailhaus@piefed.social 1 week ago
Sounds to me like this is them angling for a way to advertise backwards compatibility without a disk drive. Put a disk that hasn’t been “digitized” to an account in your current console, your account now has a license for the digital version. Get new console without disk drive, game is available to download as if you’d bought it digitally to start with.