sabvre42 on 20 August 2015
| shikamaru317 said: Everything here sounds likely except for the XB1 Mini part, and Tom Warren's confirmation of everything except for the XB1 Mini part is telling. I can't see MS releasing a digital only console just yet, the market just isn't ready for it. Besides, we already know that AMD is working on a lower power XB1 chipset, and we know that XB1's current case size is overkill anyway. With AMD's lower power chip MS should be able to release a Slim/Mini console smaller than PS4 with a disc drive, so why drop the disc drive then? MS gets those in bulk for like $10 ea, dropping it saves them very little money, and they have to contend with the downside, which is pissing off companies like GameStop, Gamefly, etc, as well as fears from gamers about the disc drive model eventually being dropped. There's alot of negative to a disc-less console, and not alot of positive right now. |
I think people that assume digital only would flop are pretty ignorant. As long as they continue to offer the full SKU alongside this than there would be no fallout and people like me might consider buying one. Everyone i know at my work, and all my friends outside of work would prefer a digital only console space. It's basically luddites and people that just hate change that argue against it.
I would be willing to buy an XB1 Mini without any media for $150-200 / up to $275 if it included the Kinect 2.0 and a game. If nothing else, I'd get this so that my wife can skype over the TV with her family in Peru.
