| endimion said: Why people talk about amazon sales... In a digital world they can do sales on digital copies... Beside the second hand market and bragging rights for big libraries... There are zero arguments for physical support... And steam and PC gaming has proven that the second hand market can be turned irrelevant also... And most people never have a library big enough to brag about it... with a fiber optic connection (to the box) and zero cap... I went digital since digital was possible... and people on 360 who want to jump have a 360 they don't need BC unless they realm need the 50bucks they get for a 360 a Gamestop... So they can go mini also with the one.. Or if they want to have just one box they have the regular XBO.. Really no real substance against an XBO mini... |
The talk about amazon sales is that it's another option you have for buying your games, really not that hard to grasp, more purchasing options = better. I can still buy a game digitally if I think it's worth it, say it's for example cheaper than a physical disc, but I much rather also have all other purchasing options at my disposal. So if I wanna buy a game at sale at my local game store, I can. If I wanna buy one used, I can. If I wanna buy one during a digital sale, you guessed it, I can.
How a slow connection is in your eyes not an argument against going all digital is beyond me. You do realize that an internet connection costs money, right? And that a better connection is more expensive? And that depending on where you live it might not even be possible to get a good connection? Not wanting to fork out that extra money or not being allowed to basically in some cases, is definitely an argument against it.
And the point about the BC is that MS themselves thinks that it will help sell consoles this year, that this will make people upgrade, it does thus seem likely that they are also going to advertise that feature. To then also throw a discless cheaper X1 on the market would only serve to confuse especially the more casual consumers who will think that they will be able to play their old 360 games on the new X1 and who will likely, as is consumer nature, want to go with the cheapest version, which could lead to a lot of disappointment and backlash.
Also you're sounding very Mattrickian/Orthian right now.
