Physical media is like "having a dead body handcuffed" to Xbox One

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The Fury said:

binary solo said:

Pretty much what I thought. MS should have gone all in with digital rather than go in half arsed. They would be alienating the physical media fans either way, but at least with ditching it all together they couldn't be accused of being DRM jerks.

They want to be the centre of the living room yet not being even able to watch a DVD would have ended that there and then.

However, it would have reduced costs dramatically, so question is, why didn't they do 2 versions? One with the drive if you want it, one without for a lot cheaper.

If you have blu-ray / DVD movies it means you've already got a machine to play them on. If you don;t have any Blu-ray / DVD movies it probably means you watch everything streaming or downloaded (legally of course). So what makes the optical drive essential to being the living room hub? It's actually the HDMI in which makes the Xb one the potential centre of the living room.