Xbox 360 The Future of the 360

cossectansin

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When I think of the future of the 360 I don't see it as the game machine I had bought it as...though it will certainly still have that function. Personally I see in it's future a SKU without a physical drive...hear me out.

Remove the physical drive, shrink the console down, and you can now find a place for this almost as easily as you would a Roku, or an Apple TV. It would come with a rather modest hard drive for installing games (you'd have to download them of course), and any media you purchase. You reduce the price point down to somewhere between $100 and $150 and I think Microsoft is set-up for the long term. Granted this would alienate those of us who have purchased a physical copy of a game but it would bring in the people who are able to justify a purchase at that price point.

You would be buying into an incredible backlog of games, a fairly robust media content archive, both downloadable and streaming, and an internet browser. I think it is very compelling, maybe subsidize the cost of the console with the price of a year of XBox Live to bring the price down even more.

Any thoughts?
 
I don't personally buy any content for my Xbox 360 aside from DLC for physical games. I just don't like the idea of digital-only content, whether it's a video game, an MP3, or whatever. I don't really want to spend money on a format I don't really trust 100%, but that's just my personal gripe on the matter. I honestly don't see them doing anything with the 360 aside from the new version of it, which seems a bit unnecessary anyway.
 
360 is going to be my only Xbox soon, and I'm going to have a PS3 & a PS4. So I hope they keep producing products for it over the next few years. It'd be nice if the next halo continues to be produced for it as well. But I really won't hold my breath :(
 
I don't personally buy any content for my Xbox 360 aside from DLC for physical games. I just don't like the idea of digital-only content, whether it's a video game, an MP3, or whatever. I don't really want to spend money on a format I don't really trust 100%, but that's just my personal gripe on the matter. I honestly don't see them doing anything with the 360 aside from the new version of it, which seems a bit unnecessary anyway.

That is partially my point though, I typically don't purchase digital content either, when I do it is for convenience sake(I didn't want to run down to RedBox to rent a movie). But I do subscribe to Netflix, other people use Hulu, some people are ESPN junkies, I have purchased MLB.tv in the past, maybe in the future we'll have NFL Sunday Ticket(one can only hope). Having a universal home for that streaming content is important to me. Actually right now I would use my 360 for that if it didn't sound like a spaceship was taking off every time I turned it on. My point is that whether you want to rent or buy a movie for the night, stream a movie, watch a game, play an arcade game, or play a AAA game you could do all that from one hub in your living room. It wont be all things to all people but it will do a lot of things for a lot of people.
 
I use my PS3 for streaming and other non-gaming needs because the online capabilities don't require a subscription. I still don't buy digital content (except DLC), but I'm more likely to do it on a PS3 than on my Xbox 360. I also find the streaming quality is much higher on the PS3 for some reason, even in HD. But I'm sure as hell not paying $2.99 to rent a movie, regardless of the console.
 
cossectansin, what you are suggesting is what the Xbox One is going to be for. As such I don't see Microsoft going back to an older console in order to make it competive to their new console. That of course completely ignores the issue folks have with this sort of system:

1.) The shoddy state of America's internet ability. Most people are doing only a bit better than dial-up, and then of course there are the data caps.
2.) What is in place should cloud or whatever go down? What happens if the system has a hiccup and loses your gear?
3.) Security - Sony is especially sucky at this, but Xbox has had their issues to. If you're doing all of this purchasing on this, what kind of security are we talking about? I mean credit card or worse debit cards are nothing to play with.

and so on and so forth. Seriously though I just can't see this happening - mostly because Xbox One.
 
cossectansin, what you are suggesting is what the Xbox One is going to be for. As such I don't see Microsoft going back to an older console in order to make it competive to their new console. That of course completely ignores the issue folks have with this sort of system:

1.) The shoddy state of America's internet ability. Most people are doing only a bit better than dial-up, and then of course there are the data caps.

This is not true most of America's population lives in areas with broadband only a small amount of the population lives in areas that don't have broadband.

Around 90% of the United States population lives on the coasts and most of them have access to broadband internet or 3G-4G internet.

2.) What is in place should cloud or whatever go down? What happens if the system has a hiccup and loses your gear?

The cloud is not going down, these are multi-billion dollar datacenters that have dedicated servers for authenticating Xbox One's accounts and dedicated servers for playing games. No one has ever been able to hack and take down Microsoft's servers.

3.) Security - Sony is especially sucky at this, but Xbox has had their issues to. If you're doing all of this purchasing on this, what kind of security are we talking about? I mean credit card or worse debit cards are nothing to play with.

and so on and so forth. Seriously though I just can't see this happening - mostly because Xbox One.

The only time any Xbox Live confidential information was ever leaked it was done by the users themselves, through phishing. No one has ever hacked the Xbox Live servers and stolen Xbox Live and confidential information.
 
I'm not worried about the servers going down. If it hasn't happened by now, it's certainly not going to happen in the future, especially when they keep updating their hardware/software with state of the art equipment. I've never had a problem with security, either, so I'm not all that worried about my information being stolen.
 
360 is going to be my only Xbox soon, and I'm going to have a PS3 & a PS4.
 
I'm probably most excited about the XBOX one being launched because I currently have an XBOX and the prices for the games and any accessories and ad-ons for it are going to drop so low its gonna be ridiculous!
 
I think Microsoft dropped the ball with the Xbox One. I thought for sure the new system would play 360 games! Coming from someone who loves Gears of War, I don't see my 360 console going anywhere for a long time. This is what happens when people become greedy!
 

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