Xbox One price drop to $299?

[Eddie_Raja]

Normchacho said:

Eddie_Raja said:


It is on track to sell 7m this year, and this will likely be its peak year. So add another few years of 6m and we are looking at 30-40m. 30m would indeed be worst case scenario. Losing the disc drive in ONE model would not hurt anything. They could easily keep it as $300 for the standard X1 with a $200 No-Disc/No-HDMI-In/LessUSB/Smaller model for those interested, and there would be many.

It's on track to do 9m+ this year. It did 7.9m last year and is already up by 750k as of the end of August. Even if MS went with only a 5 year gen (and I'd bet money they go for 6 and launch in 2019) they have a 40m selling console on their hands. They launch in 2019 and the Xbox One is closer to 50m than 45m by the time it's successor launches. Probably crossing 50m by the end of 2020 at the latest.

Losing the disc drive and the HDMI in would absolutely hurt something. You lose it's media center features, which are a major part of the Xbox One as a product. On top of that, I will remind you that BC uses the 360 disc to verify that you have it. You lose the drive, you lose BC.

You pretty much end up with two seperate consoles that need to be marketed seperatley. Which would lead to more confusion than anything else.

You see I disagree about that.  Everything up till now has proven that its media functions have gotten it nowhere.  BC can work through download as well.