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Microsoft is expanding the disc-to-digital feature, which lets owners of physical copies on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S obtain a digital licence for a title. According to tracker XCT.live, compatibility of catalogued games is already over 80%. Even Ubisoft has joined the programme. The disc-to-digital feature is fairly simple: you insert a compatible game disc into the console's drive. The rest happens automatically. The system recognises the disc and assigns the product to your account. The disc remains fully usable.
More than 80% of games are compatible
The share of compatible titles looks better than Microsoft had previously implied. Just two weeks ago the tracker XCT.live indicated compatibility at around 70% of catalogued Xbox One and Xbox Series games. It is now over 80%. The database contains almost 1,900 games, of which more than 1,500 have been marked as compatible with disc-to-digital. However, it's worth noting that the data does not come directly from Microsoft but from a community tracker, so these results are not confirmed at the source.
Thanks to Ubisoft's involvement, series such as Assassin's Creed, Just Dance and Far Cry have joined the disc-to-digital program. XCT.live's database already contains numerous compatible releases of the French studio's games.
There's a catch
Disc-to-digital doesn't make a digital licence completely independent of the physical disc. Microsoft makes it clear that the console may later require proof that you still own the disc. What's more, if an owner uses such a disc to obtain a licence and then gives it to a friend or sells it, the new owner can use it to obtain their own entitlement. In that case the original owner loses their digital licence. This is, of course, a safeguard against abuse by players.
For now the whole program applies to games for Xbox One and Xbox Series. Xbox 360 discs aren't supported by this feature.
Source: xct.live, flatpanelshd, Microsoft
