I've digested a lot of information but I'm assuming it's the same price as whatever Xbox Series X will be priced at for the time of release? That would make sense to me considering it's essentially a digital only Series X but with a few upgrades to the WiFi and other minor components. Could see Sony doing the same but with their detachable disc drive.

Consumers are largely moving towards digital now so I think the detachable disc drive makes sense.

Which is also detachable.

Don't see any reason why Xbox couldn't do some form of detachable drive either.

All platforms are slowly but surely pulling the pacifier that is physical media out of our mouths I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo offers an all-digital console as well as a physical.

Honestly, we're already seeing major AAA publishers do digital only release. It will only get "worse" by the time these digital only consoles release. The vast majority of the industry will be digital purchases and we'll see more publishers do digital only releases. Alan Wake 2 is digital only and aside from the complaining when it was announced, I've seen nothing but excitement for the game and people quickly moved on.

I'm all digital and have been since Xbox Series launched (and I think a little at the end of Xbox One) and even on my Switch I'm all digital so it doesn't really bother me that much. Having said that, they could slap a detachable disc drive to the next gen console but by then the physical market will probably be around 10-20%, especially when Xbox has a higher digital ratio than PlayStation already.

For the mid-gen refresh it is probably too late to add a disc drive in but they could maybe add a USB drive attachment. But honestly I don't see the big deal with the mid-gen refresh...It's literally just an all digital Xbox Series X...There is barely any difference except in design...If you want a physical Xbox then the OG Xbox Series X...It's basically the same console, Lol.

It's no different to Sony having a PS5 and a all-digital PS5...Literally we been saying that Xbox should release an all digital Xbox Series X, Lol.

As a PC only gamer since the end of the 360/PS3 era I'm still astonished how some console gamers still need these discs so badly.  To me it's almost as to see someone with a Walkman.

But I would also appreciate if MS would lower the price even with a bigger drive.

Xbox was clearly not expecting Baldur's Gate 3 to be popular; if $5m is what they offered Larian for day one Gamepass on it at the time, it's no wonder it wasn't on Gamepass. I hope they have since made Larian a proper offer to get it on Gamepass in time for the upcoming Xbox port. 

Haven’t bought a new physical game since 2018, I fully welcome the all digital future then one day gaming to just be turned off :)

To be clear, it's not what they offered, it's just some Microsoft employee spit balling what they THINK it would cost.

Yeah I would hope the price to be lower, it should match what the Xbox Series X is at least at the time of release. These documents are years old so the price probably doesn't factor some things in though like lower production costs, market changes, inflation, etc. If Xbox Series X production costs decrease overtime then so should Xbox Series X Digital.

I don't see why a Xbox Series X Digital which uses 95% of the same parts as Xbox Series X Physical shouldn't cost at least the same, if not lower due to the lack of a disc drive, though no disc drive is probably not saving much and then the improvements to the WiFi and other minor things add small costs so it may even out but Microsoft's pricing has been odd lately, seem to be focused on profitability too hard.

I think it's a safe bet that the Cloud hybrid plans for gen 10 have been replaced by a traditional console. If you look at what Xbox was expecting at the time these docs are all from (2020-2021), they clearly thought Cloud gaming was going to grow alot more than it did. As you can see below, they were expecting more Xbox Cloud users than Xbox PC users by about FY2028, roughly 20m active Cloud users by the start of gen 10:

That clearly isn't going to happen, Phil himself admitted on the stand that Cloud isn't growing the way they thought it would, Xbox admitted that the userbase is small enough that they only have the server capacity for 5k peak concurrent Cloud users in the UK, which is Xbox's 2nd biggest market. Seems likely that any Cloud hybrid console plans Xbox have will have been delayed to gen 11, highly doubt they will decide to release such a cloud heavy gen 10 console in 2028 when Cloud gaming has yet to properly takeoff by 2023.