| victor83fernandes said: Guys, Microsoft will release an affordable base console, for sure, just like ps5, but it will definitely will not be this model SAD, 300dollars is great, but the big majority of people want a disc drive, and be able to buy games in the store. There is no way that the only xbox series that would have a disc drive would be the series X which will cost at least 550 dollars. They might have a normal S edition with disc drive, even if it would be 350dollars, most people would prefer that rather than being limited to downloads only. I am willing to bet with anyone that the series S-AD will not be the only base console for Microsoft, they couldn't be that dumb, this is a trillion dollar company, surely they hired some intelligent people to research the gaming market? Disc drive is even more important that 4TF, can you imagine the only choice being either no discs for cheap, or with discs for 550-600? It would be the whole xbox one launch again haha with people just making fun of it all on the internet and news, this generation it was the whole no used discs, the whole new title of the news would be, no discs at all, no second hand, no lending and sharing with your friends, can you imagine the uproar? |
While there's plenty of options for them, they could be thinking about trying a more reasonable version of, 'if you can't use XB1 because of the internet, then we have an offline console for you, the 360'.
The difference being, 'if you can't afford XBSX, but want a disc drive that Lockhart may not have, then there's the XB1S'. This would actually be somewhat acceptable, because it will play all future games for at least 2 years. Unlike how 360 would be limited to certain future games. The quality of those games wouldn't be as good as an optical version of Lockhart, but they would still be a legitimate option since they would be playable. The 2 year deadline would kind of suck, but maybe MS launches an optical version of Lockhart when that's up for $299, when parts and manufacturing costs have dropped, allowing you to upgrade or trade up.
It wouldn't be the perfect answer in that specific consumers eyes, but it's much better than telling them, 'the games you want may not come to the 360 so just deal with it'.
