You Don’t Own Your Xbox Games. You Never Did.
The Xbox outage revealed a hard truth: physical discs are just license tokens that require corporate servers to function. You don’t own your games; you rent them. The real problem isn’t disc vs. digital — it’s that both are cloud-dependent. PC gamers have preservation options; console gamers are locked in. This is a preview of the future where every ‘owned’ media becomes e-waste.