Microsoft’s New Xbox One S Won’t Play Videogame Discs
Microsoft is taking one giant step forward to an all digital streaming, future with their new console. Microsoft already has their Xbox One S and their high end model Xbox One X, yet the new version that is scheduled to be released May 7th with a price tag of $249 ($50 cheaper than the previous model). With the new Xbox One S, there will no longer be a disc drive installed in the console, promoting the digital streaming of video games. This movement is a win-win situation for both users and publishers as it eliminates the shipping and packaging factor to give bigger margins and avoid the profit the retailers receive and makes it more convenient for the customer. Microsoft noticed that fewer and few users a year are actually going out of their way to leave the house to buy games and in some instances wait in lines when they can purchase a game with their controller instantly on the Xbox Store and avoid all the other obstacles.
Microsoft took a survey of around 5,000 teenage users who went from purchasing 37% of their games digitally in Fall 2015 to 60% in Spring 2019 and projected by 2020 that 100% of video games will be purchased digitally and streamed. The biggest problem with games these days is the amount of space it takes up on our consoles. Games will take anywhere from 10GB-50GB+ of storage and will take hours to install. Microsoft will integrate a hard drive with one terabyte of storage holding up to an average of eight to ten games at a time and any additional will be stored in their cloud.
On the path to knocking out big name retailer such as GameStop, by offering monthly subscriptions to gamers which will give them access to all the older games that GameStop is known for selling. The biggest advantage of this transformation to digital purchasing and streaming is simply to make it easier for the user and giving them a direct purchase to their end user. There have been testimonies from big time streamers that say it is just easier to stream games, David Hansen being one of them. Many gamers and myself included can honestly say that discs do get scratched when constantly switching them out and having everything on the xbox (like I do) is just overall more convenient and saves the time of getting up and going through the process of switching them out.
Microsoft took a survey of around 5,000 teenage users who went from purchasing 37% of their games digitally in Fall 2015 to 60% in Spring 2019 and projected by 2020 that 100% of video games will be purchased digitally and streamed. The biggest problem with games these days is the amount of space it takes up on our consoles. Games will take anywhere from 10GB-50GB+ of storage and will take hours to install. Microsoft will integrate a hard drive with one terabyte of storage holding up to an average of eight to ten games at a time and any additional will be stored in their cloud.
On the path to knocking out big name retailer such as GameStop, by offering monthly subscriptions to gamers which will give them access to all the older games that GameStop is known for selling. The biggest advantage of this transformation to digital purchasing and streaming is simply to make it easier for the user and giving them a direct purchase to their end user. There have been testimonies from big time streamers that say it is just easier to stream games, David Hansen being one of them. Many gamers and myself included can honestly say that discs do get scratched when constantly switching them out and having everything on the xbox (like I do) is just overall more convenient and saves the time of getting up and going through the process of switching them out.
Source By: Sarah E. Needleman
April 16, 2019 5:10 p.m. ET
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