Diskless consoles weaken consumer rights. In an industry where fully digital games can and do pop out of existence without warning, nobody should accept this
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It's a disc-less wonder! And it looks like an air purifier, according to Madlittlepixel. (Better than the Playstation 5's robot vagina, I guess.)
“P-please be gentle, Xbox-kun”
“Don’t worry, PS-chan” he caressed her cheek “it will be fine. I love you.”
“I love you too…” she softly whispered, letting a loud squeak go a moment later — her cheekbones blushing of a gentle, celestial blue
— Fuck you for making me think about this cursed crap
This is fake, right? How am I supposed to lay the console horizontally?
Also the Lay-out looks low quality and the text seems off.
This slide wasn't meant to be seen by the public. It's a rough draft for a product that isn't supposed to be announced until mid 2024.
Oh God, I hate it. This might be the old Zune user in me, but I like my futuretech with angles, not curves
An all-digital future isn't surprising in the slightest coming from Microsoft, although 2024 is much sooner than most would anticipate it. I guess we might see a detachable disc drive, but if there is one, it would surely not be bundled with the console.
Their business model is clearly centered around Game Pass nowadays, physical media sales must have slowed down significantly over the last few years (they also have significantly fewer limited run releases than Nintendo/Sony) and they have decided to forgo using larger size Blu-Rays to accommodate for full games on disc anyways.
As a fervent supporter of physical media (because you can get deals outside of just the one monopoly / digital store, you can buy used or you can loan/borrow games, or even get backwards compatible games that are not available digitally), this is another "slap in the face", but again I kind of expected it, sooner or later, coming from Microsoft.
No mention of Hall effect sticks.
Modular sticks, but no mention of Hall effect, yeah.
Will probably have to rely on a company like Gulikit to make a kit.
Edit: After reading more comments online, the "modular" aspect could be the swappable sticks like on the Elite controller and not the entire thumbstick assembly like the PlayStation Edge controller.
No disc drive, no buy.
I'd never get a disc-less Xbox console since some of the backwards compatible games are still disc only. Having access to my whole collection of games was a huge selling point for me to get a Series X.
So, if I want to buy Xbox in a few months, should I just wait for this?
Good, launch that and kill the Series S.
What does killing the Series S look like? A very large chunk of the Xbox Series install base are Series Ss. Microsoft is not going to be telling them they aren't getting games anymore, it's too large of a crowd for them to alienate. What incentive could Microsoft give them to upgrade when they could just buy a PS5?
Microsoft also has an incentive to keep selling the Series S to keep the pressure on game developers to develop for it. It's a lot easier for them to demand feature parity when half of their install base is using the weaker console.
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