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Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making - The Verge
Publisher description: Microsoft’s controversial Xbox One bets are paying off more than a decade later.
NewsAPI | Sep 17, 2026 | Tom Warren
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When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. The big difference with Xbox, though, is that Microsoft has always been obsessed with game preservation. In the same year that disc-to-digital is launching, Microsoft is also bringing original Xbox and Xbox 360 games to PC. Microsoft has started testing a new Xbox console feature that lets you enable the original Xbox One or Xbox One X boot screens on an Xbox Series S or X console.
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