Zippy6 said:
shikamaru317 said:
I'll reiterate what I said the other day when we were discussing this, Xbox would be fools to not at least offer an external, optional disc drive next gen, without one back compat will suffer big time. Barely anyone bought digital games back in gen 7, so most people have at least 90% of their Xbox 360 library on disc. Even last gen, physical was still the dominant Xbox One software format for the first 3 years of the generation, digital only passed physical on Xbox around 2018. There will be quite alot of unhappy gamers if they are left with the option of either no Xbox Series trade-in on the next Xbox console (because they need too keep their Series X for BC purposes), or no BC for a huge chunk of their library. If Xbox does go digital only next-gen, that would be a big reason for me to not buy it, and instead upgrade my PC for Xbox games and Gamepass, and keep my Series X just for playing my dozens of physical 360, XB1, and XSX games. |
For me personally physical isn't important. I think everyone will drop it eventually but whichever of the 3 drop it first, which is very likely to be Xbox, is going to have a PR nightmare. Just like e3 2013 where Sony took them to town over the no used games, online check-in xbo stuff that got dropped in the end. Being the first to drop physical media will do some damage. You do not want to be the console manufacturer kicking that hornets nest. |
It's kinda funny looking back at e3 2013 and what Xbox proposed because if we had even half the digital rights now that Xbox proposed back then we would be able to transfer all our physical discs to an online copy and then trade in and resell all the completed games we will never play again for credit to buy more games.
