Report: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive Has Durango lost its drive?

[DivineOne]

nice share ill keep my eye out

[13Dannyboy13]

If Microsoft goes digital. Not only are they dumb, local retail game stores are surely to go out of business. They will not be able to make money off selling the physical revenue to a customer, thus not being able to promote game Ads and thus losing profit for not only the company but the store itself. That being said, there are also plenty of hackers on the Xbox network who will be waiting on this type of thing to make out like bandits. The only way I see Microsoft pulling this off is if there is a built in encryption in every game, and that would cost money for Microsoft to hire people to do encryptions for them for every new game they plan to release.

Not only that, but you'd need a massive drive to hold all your games, unless that is part of the plan to make people buy multiple or massive HDD. (which most likely will cost as much as the system) The used games market is already taking a beating because of companies like EA with all their day one dlc sh*t, withholding content that you need a pass for should be illegal, it makes buying many used games not worth it because you have to pay another $10-20 for dlc that you should have already. I have my doubts that they will go completely digital, I'm sure there would be a pretty big backlash if the new system came out and suddenly your library of 360 games couldn't be played on the new system. I think that they could offer the option of buying a digital copy instead of a disk as a choice, but to do away with disks entirely, I'm not sure I'd want to buy it, I'd rather have an actual physical copy of a game I buy.

[mojobojo]

I want a next gen console to use game cartridges.

[13Dannyboy13]

I want a next gen console to use game cartridges.

That would help with overheating, or even use SD cards, I just hope that the next system is made better than the 360.

[dawn-hikari]

this wouldnt be smart for microsoft and most game developers might refuse to develop games for it cause game downloads can easily be lost in a power outage or internet connection disruption like said in previous possts

[firebirduk]

I want a next gen console to use game cartridges.

Game cartridges don't seem very next gen to me... Seems more like Atari 2600 back in the 80s... Admittedly harder for people to copy, but I hope things don't go down this route.

[cousinvinnie7]

Hard drive prices are only an issue for Xbox360's IE: 320gig around $100 or more unless you shop the web,for PC or PS3 500gig sata $75 or less,and game trade-in or buying used games/or renting will come to a screeching halt ,and the MS Market place is no bargain, sorry i pay $60 or more i want a disc, not sure if this is a anti-piracy thing, but this might bite them....don't get me wrong i have a PC/XBOX360/PS3, there aren't many titles on the 360 that miss the other systems....just my 2 cents

[JDW588]

I wonder what it would do to the people that play LT+ and XK3Y?