{"id":55387,"date":"2025-07-10T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55387\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:50:09","slug":"xbox-fan-shocked-that-latest-first-party-release-ships-completely-on-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55387\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Fan &#8216;Shocked&#8217; That Latest First-Party Release Ships Completely On Disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Xbox Fan Shocked That Latest First-Party Release Ships Completely On Disc\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/67035283d56b4\/xbox-fan-shocked-that-latest-first-party-release-ships-completely-on-disc.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xbox-fan-shocked-that-latest-first-party-release-ships-completely-on-disc.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"504\" alt=\"Xbox Fan Shocked That Latest First-Party Release Ships Completely On Disc\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, there&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/04\/indiana-jones-ps5-fans-not-happy-with-xboxs-physical-media-habits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bit of controversy surrounding physical Xbox releases<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/05\/xboxs-doom-the-dark-ages-seemingly-has-tiny-amount-of-content-on-disc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the amount of data stored on-disc<\/a>, with both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/indiana_jones_and_the_great_circle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/doom_the_dark_ages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOOM: The Dark Ages<\/a> requiring big downloads before being able to play. However, the company&#8217;s latest first-party launch isn&#8217;t affected by this &#8211; at least on Xbox Series X.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Reddit, user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1lvoi3l\/soooo_tony_hawk_pro_skater_34_is_actually_on_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revengexgamer<\/a> has posted about their experience getting a hold of an early copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/tony_hawks_pro_skater_3plus4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3+4<\/a>, due out July 11th. It seems as though the Xbox Series X version contains the whole game on-disc, while the user has also discovered that the last-gen Xbox One version requires an internet download to play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1lvoi3l\/soooo_tony_hawk_pro_skater_34_is_actually_on_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soooo Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 is actually on the disc.<\/a><br \/>by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/revengexgamer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">u\/revengexgamer<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xbox<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see in the above post, this Xbox is fan is actually &#8220;shocked&#8221; by their discovery, which tells you how things are right now in regards to physical Xbox releases. It&#8217;s worth noting that the controversies we mentioned at the top related to Bethesda releases, while the new Tony Hawk game is of course coming from Microsoft&#8217;s Activision team.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is good news for preservation of the physical Xbox Series X version &#8211; although Xbox One users are out of luck here. Pro Skater 3+4 lands on Xbox tomorrow, and of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/guides\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-3plus4-release-date-release-times-early-access-details-for-xbox-and-pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it launches day one on Game Pass<\/a> if you&#8217;re not fussed about grabbing a physical copy.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on this, physical media fans? Talk to us about this discovery down below.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752191409_313_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ben Kerry\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin&#8217; in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he&#8217;s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that&#8217;s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent months, there&#8217;s been a bit of controversy surrounding physical Xbox releases and the amount of data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[252,158,37323,67,132,68,3768,23083,18223],"class_list":{"0":"post-55387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-microsoft","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-tony-hawk","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-xbox","15":"tag-xbox-series-s","16":"tag-xbox-series-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114831623665595815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}