You can still buy discs, even if the console has no drive.
Based on rumors who here would buy Xbox X refresh console?
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Xbox clearly wants a future without gaming discs, that's a big no no to game preservation
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The only legitimate game preservation since ~2010 involves copyright infringement. Most retail discs are coasters that work as a license key. Discs are good because you can resell them, you can share them you can find them on sale, etc. Arguably they put pressure on digital store pricing. But as soon as you put the disc in the drive, the console is pulling code from HQ.
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I've owned 3 Xbox consoles in my life. 360 as a kid (for Halo), a One S I bought on sale in anticipation of Scalebound (cancelled, so I sold it. First lesson about Xbox games), and a second One S to play Halo MCC with a friend (sold it after playing literally nothing else on Xbox). There is absolutely no world in which I ever by an Xbox console ever again.
Get a PC. It's cheap enough to build a decent performing one now that is ~50% better than consoles for ~$1000. You'll never miss out on an xbox game, and the performance advantage is enough to make it relevant even in poorly ported titles.
Yep, if it ever comes to that again that's likely what I will do. For now, I am good.
After seeing those leaked emails i am buying two,
Microsoft needs all the help they can get at this point.
Microsoft needs all the help they can get at this point.
The value proposition is terrible. I imagine PS5 Pro will be $599 (or $549) and that's a much better deal - superior hardware, and a better first-party library/stable.
I just checked the site's coffers, we were about five hundred in the red about 10 minutes ago and suddenly it's all gone.
No idea why we suddenly got cleared out but I have my suspicions.
I have a question.
Why?
What's the appeal of a Series console, right now and the possible refresh variant in the future.
What does a Series console bring me that my current choices don't?
I have a PC, so I can play every single Microsoft game day one. I have a PS5, so I get to play my old Ps4 library and next gen titles there (If possible I'm always going PS5, specially if a title offers Dualsense features), so what does a Xbox series console do for me? I'm not about to pay for 2 concurrent subscriptions (Gamepass + ps plus), they're both fighting for my time, it's lacking next gen controller features, it's lacking experiences I can't get on my PC or PS5.
Why?
What's the appeal of a Series console, right now and the possible refresh variant in the future.
What does a Series console bring me that my current choices don't?
I have a PC, so I can play every single Microsoft game day one. I have a PS5, so I get to play my old Ps4 library and next gen titles there (If possible I'm always going PS5, specially if a title offers Dualsense features), so what does a Xbox series console do for me? I'm not about to pay for 2 concurrent subscriptions (Gamepass + ps plus), they're both fighting for my time, it's lacking next gen controller features, it's lacking experiences I can't get on my PC or PS5.
That's false, unless you're referring to Xbox Game Studios. Most discs elsewhere still come with the game, and day 1 you wait for installation and a patch, but the game is playable without a patch.
No, you won't build a PC 50% better than a console for 1000 dollars. Are you dreaming?
Lol yeah
if you want to hit $1000 exactly you can downgrade to a 6800 non-xt and just undervolt/overclock it to hit +50% anyway