60% of people in here still totally oblivious to what this means.
No preowned market anymore, no videogame retailers, monopoly on game sales (you know that the 60 USD price point is not market made, right, because it plummets 2 weeks after every game release as soon as used copies hit the market), you paying for the distribution infrastructure, at no price benefit, no emulation market in the future anymore if systems dont get totally owned like the switch, no "final state" of a game, no "going gold" schedule for dev studios (more bugs, more people not caring, we'll fix it later), ...
Videos have become commoditized, Netflix has been a huge loss in production quality (people still dont care though..), music has become commoditized, no one cares to aggregate or crawl for it any more "i just have spotify playlist slow jazz plz", people still like it though. No one likes all digital books for anything other than convenience (you could as well read a private amazon website, just from the what rights you are granted standpoint), people still like convenience though.
Here is a thought, you already could have convenience, AND a disk drive. Wow, so odd...
The problem is, that people associate disc drives with "old" and thats their entire argument. What they NEVER do is associate it which a bunch of ownership rights they NEVER will be granted again in a digital first economy.
60% if people are just plain dumb.
But Kudos to MS, for FINALLY doing the right thing and not "surprise" people with it in an intergenerational switchover. Like last time. Like what lost them the current generation.
Let people get a grasp of what it means not to own stuff anymore first, and then allow them to decide.
For example "we will make digital games resellable!" yeah, and you are the only vendor in a closed console infrastructure system. You can turn on one screw, and make the whole infrastructure more or less attractive. Then label the screw "money intake" to make sure even idiots relize what you have granted yourselves here.
But its the same as steam? Steam has market competition on the same system. Not only that but market competition by non DRM platforms. Now do that on a Playstation or Xbox. Sony Walkman, or Xperia phoen dont just play Sony Music, right? Maybe you would like to think about that as well? No? People are just plain idiots, arent they? Let me spell this out for you M-A-R-K-E-T M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y.
They think disk is old, and have made up their minds already. You so stupid.
Please get triggered.
(This be provocation to make you think.)
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Here's another thought 50 USD off of no disc drive? Wow, thats 20 USD parts cost and 30 USD off for never being able to buy a preowned game in your life anymore. (Think two generations ahead. Who can turn on all the screws? No retailers anymore. That would like to have a say as well.). Off of a fixed price point for the console, that AGAIN isnt a market price...
I've interned at Microsoft once. 50% of their retail peoples month is talking about when Amazon or - well usually Amazon, violated their USP again, and that they have to bring other retailers in line again. So that the made up price point isnt violated long term.
Its fun that way.
People are stupid.
