After buying an Xbox Series S, are your Xbox One discs only good for resale? You should probably hold off on going completely digital -- Microsoft wants to patent a system that allows you to use physical versions of games even if your console doesn't have an optical drive.Based on the patent application description, the Xbox Series S will be able to connect another device with a disc drive that can convert a physical copy of a game into a digital one.Presumably, the same Xbox One with a drive will do this (there was a model without it, yes).There are more questions than answers so far.For example, it is unclear whether the game will be allowed to be permanently transferred to a digital library (maybe the disc will turn into a dummy after that!).Or are we essentially just waiting for an external drive? The second option seems more plausible.It is not certain that the idea will turn into reality - companies often register patents that then gather dust in a drawer.But back in 2018, Thurrott journalist Brad Sams wrote that Microsoft was thinking about a similar program, Disc-to-digital.Maybe now it's time to implement it.Back in 2018, I wrote about a 'disc to digital' for converting your Xbox physical games to digital entitlements.Looks like Microsoft got the patent for it recentlyDisc-to-digital info: https://t.co/GkJFYVUklONew Patent info: https://t.co/2rizUts0xB pic.twitter.com/m6E15SEg7X- Brad Sams (@bdsams) May 10, 2022
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