| Heavenly_King said: By how their restrictions are, they should just not include a BR drive considering how your retail disk is pretty much worthless. BUT considering they are aiming to be your media center they need a BR; and If it was all digital (which it practically is) Gamestop would not sell the console. For me the vision of the console is disjointed in term of gaming aspects, media aspects, and how the market works. Those aspects seem to have been envisioned separately; and then in order to make both functions compatible the console ended costing more; without offering the advantage of the hardware it has; and with lots of restrictions gaming-wise; and quite a convoluted mess in the other aspects.. |
No they don't need a BR drive. You can get movies through the internet just like you get games, and assuming they are downloaded the quality will be equal to Blu Ray. For all we know BR could be irrelevant in 5 years but digital downloads are guaranteed to still be viable 10 years from now.
And as far as gamestop is concerned, I seriously doubt they would stop stocking it, but even if they did, that is where IPTV providers come in. If microsoft could get into business with a company like verizon they wouldn't even need gamestop anymore and seing as how gamestop even sells tablets now, I doubt they would stop stocking xbox anyways.
