Teeqoz said:
This console would also be 43% smaller than the PS4, or nearly half the size of the PS4. Combine that with quieter, and it looks rather unlikely to me. Not to mention savings from dropping the disc drive would be miniscule mobeywise. MS pays max 10$ per blu-ray drive, so they wouldn't save much on this to begin with. |
I've always said they'll do something to gradually push the always-online thing back albeit in a less excessive way. Before the reveal they had a lot of confidence, watching major nelsons interview with angry joe, he described a connected-console as always online. Behind the words, we all obviously knew the whole connected console and drm thing was really to reduce used games market.
Either that, or the higher ups at MS are giving any excuse to spin off xbox, and sales numbers vs their direct competitor is fuel for them. Even if they sacrifice software sales, they probably just wanna get as many xbox ones into peoples houses so they can remove all doubt. Even with BC, having BC will be less profitable than not having BC, because a lot of people will buy retail discs that are cheap, or used, and that's cutting into sales (even by a small fraction) of a semi-full priced current gen game where they are making a bigger cut. But BC should convince more 360'ers to buy an xb1. Personally, I think this is the real reason for all these actions.
