In many (if not most) cases, the Smart Delivery disc itself simply includes the Xbox One version of the game, and the Series X upgrade requires downloading files from the Internet. Microsoft's one-time online check is also required for many disc-based games labeled as cross-generation "Smart Delivery" titles across the Xbox One and Xbox Series X. There, disc-based PS4 games can be installed from the disc and played directly, without any need for an online connection. On the PS5, in contrast, offline backward compatibility works much more simply. Those updates aren't required to play the game, though even if you refuse the download, you can then go back offline and play your Xbox One disc on the Series X without any apparent issue. When inserted into an Xbox One, that same disc can be copied to the hard drive and loaded, even if the system is completely offline (provided the disc remains in the drive in all cases).Īfter you connect the Series X to the Internet, attempting to load the disc-based Xbox One copy from the hard drive again leads to a brief "Getting your game ready." message and then a prompt to download any available update files. But if the Series X isn't connected to the Internet, trying to load that disc-based copy from the hard drive for the first time results in an error message: "This game isn't ready yet. When you put an Xbox One disc in the Xbox Series X, the system copies the data off the disc and onto the internal hard drive, mirroring what happens if you put the disc into an Xbox One.
This limitation, which has been present since the console launched last year, was recently highlighted in a video by ModernVintageGaming and was confirmed in testing by Ars Technica.
Further Reading Xbox Series X hands-on: The big back-compat dive begins Disc-based Xbox One games and many cross-generational discs that rely on "Smart Delivery" require an online connection to play on the Xbox Series X, limiting the system's ballyhooed backward compatibility.
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