New Xbox One revision leaked

[Zappykins]

Aeolus451 said:

Zappykins said:

Yes, some of them did.  Many regret that now.  A diskless Xbox One option might be a thing that could work now.  I remember when computer people through a fit when the new MAC's didn't have floppy drives.  I think people wouldn't even know what they were for now, but it was highly contraversial.

Both the PS4 (mostly), PS3 (partially) and Xbox One run games from their hard drives.  That's why they have to be installed, and that was a request Microsoft got from developers.  Most games, and all early Xbox 360 games had to be able to run from DVD.  This was a source of complains from developers and oncassionaly overlook as in GTA V.

So all Xbox One games run from the hard drive.  The disk is only the DRM.  

No, it's not. (With physcal copies) After the game is partially installed, the console still needs the disk to completely run the game unless the game is a digital copy. If MS removed blu-ray discs/dvds, it would be a digital only console. After just a few years after do you really think MS is dumb enough to try that digital only crap? I don't think they are. 

Once game is installed on the hard drive, the disk is only used for DRM.  You are mistaken here, the game does not run off of the disk once installed.

Which is why was so easy for them to make the Xbox One so you could throw away your disk once you installed the game and link it to your account.  Now it stays linked to the physical disk, but it doesn’t do anything but give you the digital rights to run the game.

Considering how much sales happen full digitally vs disk I would say a diskless Xbox One would work for about half of their customers.  Lower the price and size, and they might make an even bigger market.

Disk distrubution is going the way of 8 track tape, cassette, Model T, and FAX.