I’ve became an Xbox fan since last year, I got my very first Xbox and I freaking love my Series X. I love how the ecosystem works and how cool the Elite Series 2 is. Due to all this I plan on staying Xbox for the next generation, my only concern is if we will be able to play our old disc games on the upcoming Xbox console/PC hybrid.
I ask this question because I have absolutely ALL my games as physical copies.
What do you guys think?
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Yes but disc drive will be sold separately. Like the PS5 Pro did.
I think yes, this thing’s going to be really fucking expensive, a $20 drive is not going to affect the price enough to leave it out
No one knows, nothing has been announced about the hardware specifics.
If they honor backwards compatibility, as they should, then yes, in some way.
I would assume that Xbox Helix (hope it’s the real name!) will have at least two versions. The disc drive might be a add on like on the PS5 Slim/Pro like others point out. Or we get a second Xbox Helix X(?). One that’s all digital and another that is disc based 💿
I would say no. Fewer and fewer games are released on Xbox in physical form, many of those are just download keys anyway and don’t contain all data. Xbox is clearly going for the all-digital marketplace like Steam, EGS and all PC stores. Game Pass is digital only as well. The market trend is also clear everywhere, the overwhelming majority of game sales are now digital on all platforms, maybe with the exception of Switch.
Add to this that fewer and fewer disc drives are being manufactured because of dropping demand, raising prices, so the console would be even more expensive. It will not play discs, just as most PCs don’t.
I think, as others have noted, the PS5 Pro has set the precedent on this. i.e. It will be an optional add-on.
It would be a shame to dump all that legacy and what backwards compatibility there is for all the prior generations.
But, with two versions of the Xbox Series releases *without* optical drives, who knows…