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?
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?