It was an enjoyable vision while it endured
- by Craig Reid
- Yesterday, 10:36am
Update [Fri 13th Nov 2026, 12:45pm]: Sadly, we do have clarification – Xbox technician Eden Marie has affirmed over on BlueSky that the appearance of Fable III in this picture was a “mistake”.
Though the post itself is confidential, it conveys the following (and appreciation to Pure Xbox user TheBillConiglio for notifying us about this):
“Bill: Observing an image of a library with Fable 3 displaying a disc to digital badge. Mistake, or……”
“Eden Marie: That’s a mistake.”
Original Narrative: Yesterday, Xbox commenced the rollout of three new console functionalities for Xbox Insiders to experience: rotating home wallpapers, the option to select which side the Xbox guide opens on, and innovative methods to arrange disc to digital games.
All of these are fantastic features that we are genuinely eager to experiment with, but what caught our eye the most was the image Xbox utilized to promote the new disc to digital enhancement. Notably, the titles presented with the D2D licence emblem positioned in the lower-left corner of each game tile.
Did Xbox merely hint at the addition of Xbox 360 games in the D2D initiative? That would hold true if the image illustrating Fable III is taken literally. At first glance, you might perceive the image above and think, ‘awesome, that’s fantastic’, but the more you scrutinize it, the stranger it becomes.
Avowed notoriously debuted on Xbox without a physical disc. So, if the speculation about Xbox 360 games joining the initiative proves accurate, does that imply we’ll also receive a physical version of Avowed? And what about Age of Empires IV? That title never had a physical launch either. Furthermore, if we genuinely wish to go Enola Holmes on this image, Forza games aren’t compatible with D2D.
