A low Price Xbox One S is coming without CD drive

Microsoft will release the Xbox One S game console without a floppy drive, which will cost gamers $ 100 less. Reports the edition about it with reference to the Thurrott resource.

The fact is that the optical drive Blu-Ray is not cheap, and the rejection of it will reduce the price of a game console. In addition, owners of physical disks with games who want to purchase a new console will be able to exchange disks for codes for downloading already purchased games in digital format.

According to preliminary information, Microsoft will also release a budget version of the Xbox One S, which will be equipped with an optical drive but will still be cheaper than the flagship.

According to the information that foreign journalists spread, this will happen in 2019.

The Thurrott edition reported that in 2019, the American corporation Microsoft will release the Xbox One console without a floppy drive. Earlier, the same publication reported that Microsoft is preparing a new console called Scarlett.

The new console will be needed by developers in order to check the market interest in rejecting disks. Also, due to the absence of a disk drive, the console will be cheaper by a hundred dollars. In addition, Microsoft will allow exchanging disks with games for their digital copies. This will allow not to lose access to the already accumulated library of games. The console will be launched in 2019, and a new generation of devices is expected in 2020.

The abandonment of the drive in addition to the cost reduction also has a different background. An increasing number of gamers are buying no more physical versions of the games at all, but loading all titles directly from the Xbox Marketplace.

Of course, Microsoft saves but above all cost and the device, it should be so planned, they probably offer at a cheaper price than is the case so far. He should be under 200 euros. In addition, a new version of the Xbox One S is in the making, which continues to rely on a drive. It should appear after the pure disk model.

Xbox is not afraid of PlayStation Classic

Nothing has jumped the news of what for many nostalgics is a joy. PlayStation has launched on sale a mini model that has been so fashionable Nintendo. To recap a little and advance that I do not seem crazy this initiative of the Japanese because it can work for a certain player profile, this machine proposes a very small edition with replicas of the original controls of the first PlayStation and 20 pre-loaded games from the day of your purchase.

The ball is on the roof of Microsoft think some, but the fact is that seeing the way they are carrying out the Americans seem unlikely that they are raising an option of this type. Starting with the costs that are generated by bringing all the available catalog of your first machine.

Xbox Mini Does it make sense?

If you ask me as a player, my answer would be that it is a safe purchase if the price and the games accompany. However, as it advanced a few lines above, it seems unlikely that this will be possible. Starting with the manufacturing costs. The psychological barrier of 99 euros I think it is almost mandatory for anyone who wants to launch a product of these characteristics, and do not forget that the machine had a modified Pentium III and a customized Nvidia solution that makes that even today, not any PC can be able to emulate their games. So we are faced with an economic barrier that would practically knock down the very idea of ​​Microsoft thinking about bringing this initiative to life.

But it is not the only obstacle to face, we remember that taking a model like that, even if it would have its audience, would be a conflict of interest for Microsoft itself. They would be competing against themselves in the field of classic games. This would also add a negative message to the subconscious of the buyers to renounce the idea of ​​" unify all the present and past catalog in one place, Xbox One ."

Is retrocompatibility something that nobody uses?

With this gesture, from Sony, they draw a panorama that reveals to the eyes of the consumer its voracity to eat the market, and eye, this is totally lawful. Their own actions are a declaration of intentions because it is not trivial to use Final Fantasy VII as a guest star of the trailer for the presentation of the console, just now that it will reach Xbox and Nintendo Switch. What's the point of playing the game on a "mini" console if you can get the HD edition on the PS4 itself? Basically none.

Retro-compatibility is something very requested, but it really is not used much.

The removal of a machine that relives the games of the past, is a desire to take advantage of the backward compatibility. But obviously from a different perspective than Microsoft. Basically because while some advocate that you reuse your catalog, others bet to re-charge you up to 3 times the same game, without more appeal than to change your traditional command for a smaller one.