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Though not confirmed, various game industry analysts expect Microsoft will follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games reports The Verge.
However, the outlet also says sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans indicate the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature – one that will allow Xbox owners to bring their existing physical game collections to digital.
The code ‘enable Disc2Digital’ began appearing in Xbox PC app code in May and reportedly signals that Xbox employees have recently started testing this new feature internally.
Reportedly, the feature will work on Xbox One and Xbox Series X discs, not on Xbox 360 or original Xbox console discs.
For such a process to work, it would require a compatible disc and a Microsoft account on an Xbox console to grant a digital entitlement tied to the specific disc. A digital entitlement is said to be similar to buying the title from Microsoft’s digital store.
Discs will still work after they’re digitised, and you’ll only lose a digital entitlement if you loan the disc to a friend or sell the disc to someone else
The outlet also says Microsoft hasn’t fully finalised whether the next-generation Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will ship with a built-in disc drive.
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