The video game industry, particularly the fates of PlayStation and Xbox, will never be the same, as we’ll soon be entering into an era of no physical disc releases for PlayStation games. And, without allowing the dust to settle amid the crater that this nuke has created, Xbox is allegedly ditching discs, too, with its next-gen Project Helix console rumored to not contain a disc drive.
It’s a tremendously sad day for physical media, especially following the harrowing news that PlayStation yoinked nearly 600 movies that users had already ‘owned,’ and the degree to which actions such as these will affect the industry and the choices consumers have in the future is unknown. But that’s not all, unfortunately, with Xbox supposedly doubling down on the death of physical media further.
As per The Verge, Xbox is reportedly testing a “disc-to-digital feature” that would allow users to insert a disc and create a digital copy, if true, though it seems much more shady than that: “This will require a Microsoft account on an Xbox console and will grant a digital entitlement for physical games,” Tom Warren explains.
Now, there’s merit in this concept due to users not being...
