I’ve solely bought a number of video games on disk from after I was utilizing my Xbox One S (I normally purchase digital) and ended up having to purchase them once more digitally after I upgraded to my Xbox Sequence S. You’re left with both paying a fortune to purchase them once more or left with one thing you may’t use anymore.
There actually does should be a mechanism for validating real disks to permit a free “digital model” improve. I can’t think about it could take a lot doing to allow it on disk based mostly variations of the Xbox so you may improve them earlier than going diskless and even through a validation app on a PC with an acceptable drive.
To me it comes right down to both piracy considerations or intentional greed since they’re making more cash out of consumers who do purchase the digital variations.