I think that the current design is great. I don't want a small little box. If they do make it "slimmer", I only want it to have a lower profile, not less wide. Components have a certain size, and it looks better when they all look similar.
But, peoples expectation now a days is that all electronics are extremely small. So, I am sure that they can offer 2 different XB1 skus. They can have one with an optical drive and still get it down to the PS4 size. They could also offer a unit that doesn't have an optical drive at all and make it much smaller yet. They could call it the XB1 Digital or something. It could include a much bigger Hard Drive to begin with than the other units or just the same size drive and sell it for $30-50 per unit less(even though optical drives only cost the $20 at most).
Just an idea...
It is near the end of the end....
