Sony has announced they are ditching physical media, and it looks like Microsoft are making similar plans for the future.
A report from The Verge states that Microsoft employees are testing a ‘disc-to-digital’ process that turns a copy of a physical game into the digital version, thus removing the need for physical media. If the game is also available on Game Pass or Play Anywhere you will also be able to access the game there, assuming you have the subscription.
The process is said to be tied to the disc, so you wouldn’t be able to transfer your game to digital and then pass the disc on to someone else to do the same, if you do it is reported you will lose the digital version of the game.
Some Xbox One games may not work with the new process, “It all depends on how and when the disc was manufactured and it may not have the features we need for this program,” is the warning given to the testers.
If the PS6 is going to be backwards compatible and, as it seems, will not have a disc drive, Sony are going to have to work on something similar to make backwards compatibility worthwhile.
Source: The Verge
