Xbox Rumors: Next-Gen Xbox Reveal At E3, Xbox One With No Disc-Drive, And All The Other Rumors

I obviously prefer Xbox One X’s power over the PS4 Pro for multiplatform titles but I hate the X’s sluggish OS/dash. Sony’s feel much more responsive and something about that typical Xbox signal with those crushed blacks ticks me off too. In a perfect world the Pro would have X’s power and accept the microsoft controller. I know that makes little sense but I’m just saying both brands/consoles have their own strengths

I was using my PS4 Pro for about 95% of my gaming when I bought an XB1X last year, mainly to play Read Dead Redemption in preparation for the sequel. I was BLOWN AWAY at that 8 year old game completely revived in 4K and a silky smooth frame rate. Since then, every time there’s been a 3rd party offering I find myself getting the XBox version of the game. It’s just all around better. Sony still completely dominates with first party games and I’ll always have a PlayStation as long as they keep putting out games like GoW and Spider-Man, but the power-gap between these two machines is extremely noticeable and for games like RDR2, CoD 4, BF5, Anthem and The Division 2, my money went to MS not Sony’s camp.

The Backwards Compatibility and Game Pass give the system a lot more variety than Sony, even if MS exclusives have been worthless for the last few years (except Forza Horizons... wow). For $10/month I have access to Way more games than I have time to play, and a lot of them are top-notch (like the new Tomb Raider games) not just old one-off games. Seems to be much better value than PsNow, which I had for a few months then cancelled. I really think the Games-As-A-Service model (let’s hope they don’t call it GAAS) is the future. It’s also one more reason digital is the only horse in the race at this point.

I did a search for the word “exclusive” in this article and it came up exactly zero times. If that’s any indication of how many first-party exclusives will be available, then the number of Xbone 2’s I’ll be buying will probably be very similar to that.

I'm hoping there's a new Killer Instinct to announce with all this. Because its the games that will ultimately get me to purchase any of these consoles.

Horrible idea

Still alot of people love buy disc and trade it later on

And how about retail s bussiness

Can't wait for the physical to digital. I have a whole room of discs to clean out. Now all we need are pc ports to xbox.

This better cost $79. Otherwise it would be pointless.

The makers and devs of all three consoles have been blatantly stripping away all the small reasons to own physical copies since the last gen. Boxes are cheaper than ever, no manuals, and the box liners are thinner than ever. Day one updates of 10+ GB anyway. And you need to have the disc present to play even though each disc has a unique cd key embedded.

The last nicest reason to own a physical disc still remains with Wii-U and their rounded over disc edges and full color print graphic label.

No issues with me if the Xbox One loses its drive as long as the savings is passed on to the customer.

Microsoft can create new APIs, OSes and Hardware all day long -- they're going to founder hard in the gaming space if they don't get their thumb out of their ass with the games. The past two years have been sparse as hell on the games front. The few exclusives they have put out, outside of copy-paste Forza sequels, have been trash. Sea of Thieves and Crackdown3 being examples of the label, "trash".

Man so much going on in the Xbox camp I tell ya one thing E3 is going to be very interesting.

If you buy your games on day one, then digital is comparable to disc in price. You obviously have money to burn, and you end up with Fallout 76 when you thought you were getting a real Fallout game. Double burn. Digital prices stay high for years, even though the competing disc medium has dropped in price considerably as competing retailers look to move old stock. Buying a used game disc is even cheaper. You can't buy used digital or borrow digital to test a game first. When you see how Microsoft maintains prices with the competition of the disc market, just imagine the future when Microsoft has no competition. And when the servers that you rely on stop supporting your game, oh well, you should have seen that coming. I keep all my game hardware & software, because the future is inevitable but not as pretty as some think.

My biggest complaint about the Xbox One is that many things that should work offline do not. Microsoft has no desire to fix this.

Will the Internet be universal and free in the future? Definitely not.

Will I be without cable and the Internet in the future? Considering the cost, yes.

So does all digital mean that the discs people trade in for digital downloaded versions get destroyed?! Imagine how much the values of certain games would go up and handicap the people who want to own physical copies of those games who have yet to buy them? This is not exactly a good idea in my opinion. It is conquesting one market to try and force another kind of media on the masses. There are certain games I don't mind owning on an HDD bought from PSN etc. however to go full in digital is not a great idea. Especially when we don't even know what will happen to the traded in media. I can just imagine what they plan to do with it. I can hear the crunching of the shredders at Microsoft now.

If MS is pushing an all-digital console future, they should also push ISPs to get rid of data caps, stop treating bits and bytes like a finite resource.

Multiple games this gen are over 100GB, that will probably be the norm for AAA games next gen.

Perhaps they could arrange partnerships with ISPs where Xbox Live can use unlimited amounts of data, but that would be a net neutrality violation.

Until Microsoft decides to get into the ISP game to ensure that 1) everyone has decent high speed internet and 2) there will be no data caps, they really need to abandon their goal of an all-digital platform - unless their ultimate goal is to kill the Xbox. Personally, I don't know why they aren't making moves to that end (becoming an ISP, not killing the Xbox). They want people to be pay for Gold. They want people to pay for Game Pass. If Microsoft was also offering high speed internet, they could offer a Gamer Bundle that combines your internet with Xbox Gold and Game Pass at a reasonably reduced price, which might entice people who ordinarily eschew those services - like me - to go ahead to get the bundle.

I'm fine with all-digital gaming on PC because I'm already paying for my internet (and not being asked to pay an additional $60 a year by Steam to use their service) which, for better or worse, has become just a necessary evil of life, and, thankfully, I have access to moderately decent internet, and, at the moment, I'm not crippled by data caps. But the second my internet connection/speed becomes subpar or I'm saddled with data caps, I'll probably end up buying a lot fewer games on PC, which may, in turn, ultimately diminish how much time I spend gaming...unless I had another option, an option where digital downloads weren't necessary, a option where I could, say, take some sort of physical media and place it inside a device that could then read the data off that media and allow me to play video games entirely separate from the internet. Like, I don't know, a home media console or something.

I get that Microsoft has this massive boner for an all-digital world and, sure, I get it. I feel the same way about that Star Trek-ian universe where all books, all music, all media can be accessed on command, entirely for free, on a lightweight tablet that everyone owns or just by speaking the request aloud to my near-sentient domicile. We've got a pretty decent approximation of the tablet, and Alexa is at least a dimwitted, three-toed cousin to the Star Trek computer systems, but we just aren't there yet on the all media instantly available and the free of charge part. So, sadly, I have to go on dreaming. Similarly, the world isn't quite there on the widespread, incorruptible tech part that would allow Microsoft to have their all-digital Xbox. We're still bottlenecked by the spotty internet coverage and corporate greed of ISPs. But, hey, you go right on dreaming, Microsoft. Maybe someday we'll both have our dreams come true. Maybe.

Dude I have to pay for my bandwidth. It took me 100gigs to download Gears of War 4. I don't know why it was that huge, when my steam games are like HALF of that. I also like to rent many games from Gamefly, when I am not sure about actually buying a game. Watch stupid MS try to make a rent-a-game service which would be absurd, considering you are limited to Xbox games only.

Digital games are inevitable when it comes to PCs, but consoles are NOT PCs, and should never be really. They are the alternative that should be able to run discs whenever. And I guess if this continues, we won't have much backwards compatibility unless you what, trade in the game somehow for a digital copy. How does that work anyway? Sounds like to much trouble honestly.

Than we have the issue of disc space. Efficient Hard Drives are more expensive than DVD drives, and you bet that this won't be a factor in future consoles. This just sounds like such a bad idea, why mess with disc-less anyway. Just leave it be and make it option only.

We need more teraflops. Period.

All I'm waiting for is a more powerful Nintendo Switch. Like a Switch Pro or something along the lines. I'm pretty sure we'll get one in 2020.

A lot of exciting stuff this year for E3. Can’t wait.

No interest in digital only system. I have bought and sold games for years making a nice profit, so no way I am supporting this. However I have not made much from games on MS platforms so no big deal.

MS is about to go crazy at E3 this year. If forward compatibility is true, oh man. It's over.

The fact that it's an option means it's not that big of a deal. I don't plan on ever buying an all-digital Xbox, but as an option to keep costs down, it does make sense. I just hope they know that it would be stupid of them to make the NEW Xbox digital only.

Well that would be a complete oversight if they make such a console.

I mostly play games on my PC, but do play exclusives and like to have a console for that and renting movies.

But I also have a HUGE collection of Blu-rays and now buying UHD's too, so they would be unusable with such a device.

I have recently purchased a dedicated 4K player though, so not really a problem for myself anymore; but if I did decide to buy a next-gen console in the future for exclusive games I couldn't play on my gaming PC, I would choose one with an UHD drive over one without :)