Reintroduction of original XB1 2014

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

theprof00 said:

binary solo said:

So you're forced to buy the overpriced Xbox BR drive rather than a cheap BR drive oin order to be able to watch BR movies etc all through the one HDMI port on your TV? doesn't sound like a very good solution. And of course most cable boxes come with DVR, so an Xbox proprietary DVR would seem to have limited utility.

Anyway, aside from reducing the form factor, removing BR drive doesn;t reduce the cost of the Xbox by that much, so you're losing a lot of functionality and having to shoehorn alternative solutions for very little cost saving. If you just remove the BR drive and sell the Xb one for $399 you're still losing money on the hardware.

Wifi dongle on x360 was 99$.

You're looking at it from such a simplistic viewpoint.

This thread wasn't made to find cost reductions. I don't know where in teh thread you got turned around, and sure I'll take the blame for you not understanding. But this thread isn't a "how can we get the xbox1 price down" thread.

This is a "creative vision" thread.
The creative vision here is that MS releases an alternative box, which costs them less, and brings back the strategic pursuits they originally wanted. Total Azure integration into major retailers, control of used games market, reduction of production costs all around, better analysis of pre-orders.

I don't know why you're talking about shoehorning alternative solutions. There is no shoe-horning here. There was criticism that no discs wouldn't work. I disagree, but because my debate partners are big babies I offered a simple solution that MS used all throughout the 360 gen: Modular expensive addons they got for free in the more expensive version.

I doubt the market cares about Microsoft's creative vision for the industry.

Thus a sku that does this would have to be drastically reduced in price compared to the competition to even get any attention. Not to mention it might hurt word of mouth for the console which the PS4 has in spades. What they are doing right now is the best possible course of action although I feel that they should invest more in 1st party studios. Value the consumer, make em talk about the Xb1, a digital only box doesn't seem like the best way to do that.