lol seriously? a digital only xbox 1? i guess since they know they arent going to catch the ps4 for first place, they are shooting for passing up the wii u for third place lol
lol seriously? a digital only xbox 1? i guess since they know they arent going to catch the ps4 for first place, they are shooting for passing up the wii u for third place lol
Good idea for some people. MS needs to be fighting over low price now.
Random_Matt said:
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?, PS4 is slightly louder and runs slightly hotter and it is way smaller. Not to mention is has a significantly more powerful GPU.
This can't be true. It's a horrible idea. The crowd who want digital only is very niche right now. Even with a price of $249 (though I see them trying to sell it for $299) this wouldn't do much against a non-gimped $349 PS4. Of course, this is the company who had the worst policies just 2 years ago.
Ka-pi96 said:
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it wouldnt boost wii u sales, it would cause their sales to plummet. unless they still supported the older model and advocated physical releases. if they plan on solely supporting a digital only sku, then i think we are going to have a new third place laughing stock of the gaming industry.
celador said:
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When All Digital musice came out it would take people hours to download music - as most people were on dial up. Still it's grown and taken over.
I do agree with you, they are old tech that died. But I would say the same about Blu-ray. It's a dead or dying tech. It's 10 years old, and still can't even dominate over verabled DVD players. Look at the top 12, in most of the sales, the DVD sells TWICE what the Blu-ray does:
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Title | Units this Week | % Change | Total Units | Spending this Week | Total Spending | Weeks | |||
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- | (-) | The Longest Ride | 221,512 | -43% | 609,830 | $3,313,820 | $9,651,169 | 2 | Buy |
- | (-) | Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 | 129,945 | -32% | 320,240 | $2,198,669 | $5,429,878 | 4 | Buy |
- | new | Wild Horses | 104,833 | 104,833 | $1,046,233 | $1,046,233 | 1 | Buy | |
- | new | Scooby Doo and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery | 83,381 | 83,381 | $1,210,475 | $1,210,475 | 1 | Buy | |
- | (-) | Get Hard | 81,463 | -6% | 709,683 | $1,546,982 | $11,926,891 | 7 | Buy |
- | (-) | Despicable Me 2 | 56,816 | -17% | 7,901,989 | $614,181 | $122,252,387 | 85 | Buy |
- | (-) | Ex Machina | 52,968 | -37% | 137,299 | $765,388 | $2,016,016 | 5 | Buy |
- | (-) | Despicable Me 2: 3 Mini-Movie Collection | 48,236 | +22% | 247,425 | $229,121 | $924,106 | 20 | Buy |
- | (-) | Kingsman: The Secret Service | 43,117 | +9% | 833,890 | $623,903 | $11,860,741 | 11 | Buy |
- | (-) | American Sniper | 41,976 | +16% | 1,908,075 | $427,735 | $26,855,566 | 10 | Buy |
- | (-) | Despicable Me | 39,998 | -20% | 13,985,747 | $358,382 | $190,726,352 | 241 | Buy |
http://www.the-numbers.com/weekly-dvd-sales-chart
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Title | Units this Week | % Change | Total Units | Spending this Week | Total Spending | Weeks | |||
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1 | (-) | The Longest Ride | 77,683 | -32% | 192,145 | $1,550,553 | $4,000,048 | 2 | Buy |
2 | (-) | Interstellar (The only excptinon) |
73,155 | +717% | 1,205,241 | $962,718 | $23,241,506 | 19 | Buy |
3 | (-) | Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 | 65,376 | -27% | 154,983 | $1,430,420 | $3,391,020 | 4 | Buy |
4 | (-) | X-Men Days of Future Past | 44,765 | -54% | 1,634,871 | $669,682 | $46,624,498 | 41 | Buy |
5 | (-) | Get Hard | 42,865 | +69% | 267,506 | $655,842 | $5,799,617 | 7 | Buy |
- | (-) | Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy | 37,371 | -29% | 3,195,102 | $2,349,156 | $202,138,163 | 554 | Buy |
6 | (-) | Ex Machina | 35,967 | -71% | 160,900 | $605,688 | $2,715,806 | 5 | Buy |
7 | (-) | American Sniper | 22,935 | +51% | 1,254,180 | $425,217 | $28,710,186 | 10 | Buy |
8 | (-) | It Follows | 22,926 | -65% | 87,884 | $295,284 | $1,135,836 | 4 | Buy |
9 | (-) | Jupiter Ascending | 21,629 | +666% | 365,040 | $643,448 | $10,546,563 | 12 | Buy |
10 | new | Wild Horses | 21,248 | 21,248 | $324,030 | $324,030 | 1 | Buy | |
11 | (-) | Kung Fu Killer | 19,557 | +1,252% | 21,435 | $253,856 | $279,040 | 3 | Buy |
12 | (-) | Big Hero 6 | 19,540 | +36% | 2,648,858 | $479,111 | $51,279,984 | 25 | Buy |
NathObeaN said: They won't make a digital only Xbox. It would go against everything they have attempted to recover in terms of PR over the past 2 years. A quieter/smaller X1, yes. A disc-less one? No way. Maybe they will launch it with an optional BD drive that you can plug into it. That might be passable. |
Digital only never means old Xbox One rule is back.
I think it would make sense if it is a CHOICE. I don't think people will mine if they already have a ps4 and want to play some Halo, Gears, Forza, Killer Instinct ect... and don't have to pay as much for it. $279 price tag will make sense and I gurantee you a lot of PS4 owners will pick up an Xbox One.
This would obviously, if true, be a compliment to their main console, kind of how we had 360 premium and basic models last Gen. And its release would most likely coincide with the new UI. And if priced right, this thing would literally fly of shelves :).
Shadow1980 said:
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By the way, can't stand the wall of text.
Movies, Music, Games they are all entertainment. Consumed in many of the same ways. Movies and Games being more alike as they require more focus, where music is often background.
Actually, yes, this list of sales shows Bluray (Which came out in Japan in 2005) is not selling. Bluray sales should be around 9 times what DVD's are at this point, now and the next couple of years being its biggest sales - the zenith of the format, as it is phased out by a new format (4K Blu-ray), but it's not even equal to DVD sales, but around half. (DVD should be in near it’s last breaths of dying itself as VHS sales after 2005.)
Blu-ray as a medium, is going to be HD DVD and VHS in a few years. Sure there are some around, but most people will not use them.
Digital games are in most every way, better than physical copies (of a digital game) in that they digital copy can not be broke, lost, scratched or stolen. They also allow instant switching – so you don’t have to go hunt and find something.
The exact same argument you are using against digital download was used when downloads were replacing physical in the music industry. The only one that will survive is that is physical are records, because they can sound better than a CD. But with the higher sampling formats, even that is fading to near nothingness.