Ah, good point about BC.  But there rumor is their might be two devices!  I could see one without a Blu-ray. 

I have use mine, but mostly to watch DVD's and some CD's of books from the library.

PS  Everyone knows pugs are so cute and cuddley.  Maybe they are keeping the brick just for you incase you do have to comit murder?

:'(

In other words, yes because MS won't go digital only not after what happened earlier this gen.  Didn't gamers throw quite a fit over MS trying to go digiital only?

Yes, some of them did.  Many regret that now.  A diskless Xbox One option might be a thing that could work now.  I remember when computer people through a fit when the new MAC's didn't have floppy drives.  I think people wouldn't even know what they were for now, but it was highly contraversial.

Both the PS4 (mostly), PS3 (partially) and Xbox One run games from their hard drives.  That's why they have to be installed, and that was a request Microsoft got from developers.  Most games, and all early Xbox 360 games had to be able to run from DVD.  This was a source of complains from developers and oncassionaly overlook as in GTA V.

So all Xbox One games run from the hard drive.  The disk is only the DRM.  

They need to try and get rid of the other 9, X1 bundles, before they release any new ones, imo.

No, it's not. (With physcal copies) After the game is partially installed, the console still needs the disk to completely run the game unless the game is a digital copy. If MS removed blu-ray discs/dvds, it would be a digital only console. After just a few years after do you really think MS is dumb enough to try that digital only crap? I don't think they are. 

Was she really an insider? she predicted BC for PS4 wrong

Well I say insider but she had told us mods about a few games coming out during E3 before they got revealed XD She usually kept things tight-lipped. Like she told us about TLG a few days befor it got revealed and another game. But yeah maybe insider isnt the right word

Once game is installed on the hard drive, the disk is only used for DRM.  You are mistaken here, the game does not run off of the disk once installed.

Which is why was so easy for them to make the Xbox One so you could throw away your disk once you installed the game and link it to your account.  Now it stays linked to the physical disk, but it doesn’t do anything but give you the digital rights to run the game.

Considering how much sales happen full digitally vs disk I would say a diskless Xbox One would work for about half of their customers.  Lower the price and size, and they might make an even bigger market.

Disk distrubution is going the way of 8 track tape, cassette, Model T, and FAX.

^ this I simply don't buy a expensive device (beside TVs since you don't have any choice this days) with an integrated not easy to replace PSU.... It's the part that fails the most, that generate a lot of hit and that needs to be changed if you change countries...

heck even my game pad I prefer them with amovible power banks...