| method114 said: The TV industry and the DVDbluray industry are dying. Sells fell 14% in 2014 and another 12% in 2015, 7% in 2016. Do you see the trend? That's a huge drop in 3 years and it's not going to stop so why make people pay for something that is consistently dying? |
I think you are missing the point. Just because sales have dropped for a specific type of media, doesn't mean that media is worthless. 14% of say 10 million sales is still millions of sales.
Plus, the cost of implementing a Blu-Ray drive that supports UHD Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, DVD and CD's over a drive that only support Blu-Ray and DVD could also be non-existent as many older PC drives just need a firmware update (free) that enables such functionality. So your entire argument is moot.
Plus, there is obviously value in backwards compatability. Without DVD support, the Xbox One wouldn't be able to support Original Xbox and Xbox 360 optical media. It's one of the main highlights of the Xbox brand right now.
Fact is, consoles are expected to do more than just play games these days. And it's the Xbox One S and Xbox One X that has the best media functionality.
And from a consumer perspective, more choice, value and features is not a bad thing. So stop bagging it.
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