Xbox One price drop to $299?

[Normchacho]

Eddie_Raja said:

Normchacho said:

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.

As far as BC goes, if you own the physical copy of a 360 game you need the disc to play it on the Xbox One.

 

I can agree to disagree about the media features. Though, I have to say that I think the type of buyer that is going to find the lower price attractive are also going to be the people that will:

A: get the most use out of the media features.

B: be the most apprehensive about not being able to go into their local Wal-Mart and buy a game.