Rumour: Xbox One mini to launch in October. To drop the blu-ray drive?

[Zappykins]

celador said:

Zappykins said:

I know!  That's why so many people still buy tape cassettes, CD's, and VHS tapes.

If you have a point it is being lost on me. Tape cassettes a d VHS tapes are dead technologies, that were replaced with superior physical products.  And as for CDs, they are hardly a good comparison. Going digital for music is generally cheaper and there isn't the same second hand market/trade-in culture in music that there is for games.

When All Digital musice came out it would take people hours to download music - as most people were on dial up.  Still it's grown and taken over.

I do agree with you, they are old tech that died.  But I would say the same about Blu-ray.  It's a dead or dying tech.  It's 10 years old, and still can't even dominate over verabled DVD players.  Look at the top 12, in most of the sales, the DVD sells TWICE what the Blu-ray does:

United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending July 26, 2015

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Chart Index

		Title	Units this Week	% Change	Total Units	Spending this Week	Total Spending	Weeks
-	(-)	The Longest Ride	221,512	-43%	609,830	$3,313,820	$9,651,169	2	Buy
-	(-)	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2	129,945	-32%	320,240	$2,198,669	$5,429,878	4	Buy
-	new	Wild Horses	104,833		104,833	$1,046,233	$1,046,233	1	Buy
-	new	Scooby Doo and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery	83,381		83,381	$1,210,475	$1,210,475	1	Buy
-	(-)	Get Hard	81,463	-6%	709,683	$1,546,982	$11,926,891	7	Buy
-	(-)	Despicable Me 2	56,816	-17%	7,901,989	$614,181	$122,252,387	85	Buy
-	(-)	Ex Machina	52,968	-37%	137,299	$765,388	$2,016,016	5	Buy
-	(-)	Despicable Me 2: 3 Mini-Movie Collection	48,236	+22%	247,425	$229,121	$924,106	20	Buy
-	(-)	Kingsman: The Secret Service	43,117	+9%	833,890	$623,903	$11,860,741	11	Buy
-	(-)	American Sniper	41,976	+16%	1,908,075	$427,735	$26,855,566	10	Buy
-	(-)	Despicable Me	39,998	-20%	13,985,747	$358,382	$190,726,352	241	Buy

 

http://www.the-numbers.com/weekly-dvd-sales-chart

United States Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending July 26, 2015

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		Title	Units this Week	% Change	Total Units	Spending this Week	Total Spending	Weeks
1	(-)	The Longest Ride	77,683	-32%	192,145	$1,550,553	$4,000,048	2	Buy
2	(-)	Interstellar (The only excptinon)	73,155	+717%	1,205,241	$962,718	$23,241,506	19	Buy
3	(-)	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2	65,376	-27%	154,983	$1,430,420	$3,391,020	4	Buy
4	(-)	X-Men Days of Future Past	44,765	-54%	1,634,871	$669,682	$46,624,498	41	Buy
5	(-)	Get Hard	42,865	+69%	267,506	$655,842	$5,799,617	7	Buy
-	(-)	Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy	37,371	-29%	3,195,102	$2,349,156	$202,138,163	554	Buy
6	(-)	Ex Machina	35,967	-71%	160,900	$605,688	$2,715,806	5	Buy
7	(-)	American Sniper	22,935	+51%	1,254,180	$425,217	$28,710,186	10	Buy
8	(-)	It Follows	22,926	-65%	87,884	$295,284	$1,135,836	4	Buy
9	(-)	Jupiter Ascending	21,629	+666%	365,040	$643,448	$10,546,563	12	Buy
10	new	Wild Horses	21,248		21,248	$324,030	$324,030	1	Buy
11	(-)	Kung Fu Killer	19,557	+1,252%	21,435	$253,856	$279,040	3	Buy
12	(-)	Big Hero 6	19,540	+36%	2,648,858	$479,111	$51,279,984	25	Buy

http://www.the-numbers.com/weekly-bluray-sales-chart

Blu-rays are like newspappers.  They are still around, but becoing something quant.

So you think 4K Blu-ray will save them?  Well, 4k Streaming on Youtube and Netflix has been out for a couple of years now, and we still do not have 4K Blu-rays.