I think it’ll be like how Sony did with the PS5 Pro and I’ll be ok with a disc drive sold separately.
Ornery-Tonight1694 on
Maybe. Maybe it will be like PS5 with detachable disk drive.
Feed-Your-Fish on
Only with an add-on drive. The days of hardware having disk drives is over.
Armandonerd on
I hope so
nissanfan64 on
I hope so otherwise a lot of my interest would be gone.
LegendaryenigmaXYZ on
Disk drive as a seperate charge. This thing is going to be pricey and depending on the month xbox sells between 17% -7% physical software. Every day those numbers are also getting lower.
Co-opingTowardHatred on
Yes, but you might need an external drive.
jddev_ on
Nope
adamchevy on
If it does have one built in it will be a day one purchase/Pre-order for me.
Gaming_117 on
I hope so
brokenmessiah on
Prior to Asha, hard no. Previous leadership clearly abandoned discs. Under new leadership, its become uncertain.
BoBoBearDev on
To validate? I guess so.
jasoncross00 on
Unpopular opinion but:
I hope by default, no. Hear me out.
In consoles, games sales are already more than 85% digital (and I think Switch has a lot to do with the 15% they get).
On PC and Mobile, the two largest platforms in the world, game sales have been 100% digital for a long time.
I don’t want Microsoft to make the system cost more for everyone, and face the engineering challenges of airflow around a DVD drive and stuff, for that increasingly small percent.
Especially since it will support multiple game stores, which really helps you find a deal on a game (one of the reasons people say they like to buy physical games).
What I hope they do instead is have a Day 1 accessory disc drive, that matches and looks like it belongs next to the console. It should be sold barely over cost, and used only for back-compat with existing Xbox games. New games that require Helix would only be sold digital.
Again, I don’t expect that to be a popular opinion here…the small percent of gamers who still buy physical games are all on Reddit and they let you KNOW. But as long as there’s a very reasonable way to handle back-compat of physical games, I’d prefer they didn’t add a drive to the cost or engineering hurdles of making the new box.
Follows-Jesus on
Via an addon drive, like how ps5 revision handles it
LFGX360 on
Yes. One of the big selling points of Xbox is backwards compatibility.
-Accession- on
It’ll support copilot
JFeth on
No. I think they have been trying to get away from physical media for awhile. Now that discs are such a small number of installs, and they got people used to digital only consoles, they will cut them out to save money. If they do, it will be an add on like on PCs.
shadowlarvitar on
Probably, I wouldn’t be surprised if they pull a Playstation and make it an add-on though
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I think it’ll be like how Sony did with the PS5 Pro and I’ll be ok with a disc drive sold separately.
Maybe. Maybe it will be like PS5 with detachable disk drive.
Only with an add-on drive. The days of hardware having disk drives is over.
I hope so
I hope so otherwise a lot of my interest would be gone.
Disk drive as a seperate charge. This thing is going to be pricey and depending on the month xbox sells between 17% -7% physical software. Every day those numbers are also getting lower.
Yes, but you might need an external drive.
Nope
If it does have one built in it will be a day one purchase/Pre-order for me.
I hope so
Prior to Asha, hard no. Previous leadership clearly abandoned discs. Under new leadership, its become uncertain.
To validate? I guess so.
Unpopular opinion but:
I hope by default, no. Hear me out.
In consoles, games sales are already more than 85% digital (and I think Switch has a lot to do with the 15% they get).
On PC and Mobile, the two largest platforms in the world, game sales have been 100% digital for a long time.
I don’t want Microsoft to make the system cost more for everyone, and face the engineering challenges of airflow around a DVD drive and stuff, for that increasingly small percent.
Especially since it will support multiple game stores, which really helps you find a deal on a game (one of the reasons people say they like to buy physical games).
What I hope they do instead is have a Day 1 accessory disc drive, that matches and looks like it belongs next to the console. It should be sold barely over cost, and used only for back-compat with existing Xbox games. New games that require Helix would only be sold digital.
Again, I don’t expect that to be a popular opinion here…the small percent of gamers who still buy physical games are all on Reddit and they let you KNOW. But as long as there’s a very reasonable way to handle back-compat of physical games, I’d prefer they didn’t add a drive to the cost or engineering hurdles of making the new box.
Via an addon drive, like how ps5 revision handles it
Yes. One of the big selling points of Xbox is backwards compatibility.
It’ll support copilot
No. I think they have been trying to get away from physical media for awhile. Now that discs are such a small number of installs, and they got people used to digital only consoles, they will cut them out to save money. If they do, it will be an add on like on PCs.
Probably, I wouldn’t be surprised if they pull a Playstation and make it an add-on though