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  • CMH
    Making you famous
    • Oct 2002
    • 26203
    #31
    Re: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive

    Originally posted by mgoblue
    Hard drives are so darn expensive nowadays...
    They are? Do you mean console hard drives? Because I could walk into a Best Buy and get TB sized hard drives for about one hundred bucks. It's ridiculous how inexpensive hard drives are today.
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      • Sandman42
        Hall Of Fame
        • Aug 2004
        • 15186
        #32
        Re: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive

        Originally posted by CMH
        They are? Do you mean console hard drives? Because I could walk into a Best Buy and get TB sized hard drives for about one hundred bucks. It's ridiculous how inexpensive hard drives are today.
        Well the prices of them did go up after the flooding in Thailand took out a majority of the factories that produce hard drives. The prices have started dropping again though.
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          • Phobia
            Hall Of Fame
            • Jan 2008
            • 11623
            #33
            Re: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive

            Originally posted by Sandman42
            Well the prices of them did go up after the flooding in Thailand took out a majority of the factories that produce hard drives. The prices have started dropping again though.
            Prices are silly low though, 1 to 2 TB are in the $100 to $120 depending on brand. If Microsoft went the route of allowing us to purchase our own External Hard Drives and hook up via USB I would be COMPLETELY on board with this. I honestly don't see them going this route because they don't wanna lose out any money they wouldn't have to by forcing us to buy their own HD.

            But the chance of it is still possible in my eyes. I mean there is some guys that own 200+ games and purchase 3 to 4 games a month. If they go the strictly digital storage route, in my opinion it would make sense to allow the consumer to purchase the HD that is right for them. I might only need a 1 TB external drive but someone else might need a 4 TB drive to hold all their media. I think it would be far fetched to force these people to buy a MS branded HD for the console. Granted I could be completely wrong, but this route sounds logical to me. I know it is done now with how console packages are sold by hard drive capacity, but the level of storage needed with digital storage is so wide ranging.

            Another key thing to me is going away from internal only hard drives. I want to see the use of externals being far more common. The ability to hot swap your media to another console ect just by bringing your external HD makes sense to me also.

            Now don't get me wrong, this makes the consoles more in common with PCs but honestly this is the direction of consoles. It is a PC with dedicated hardware, a dedicated controller, and only use is one type of application "gaming" (minus the TV/Movie use). So logistically speaking consoles even this generation are just PCs "in camo" as consoles. So in the future the lines between a central media center of TV, MOVIES, GAMES, ONLINE, WEB BROWSER, ONLINE PURCHASING, ect is drawing more and more together.
            Last edited by Phobia; 03-14-2012, 02:33 PM.

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              • stiffarmleft
                MVP
                • Jul 2002
                • 1986
                #34
                Re: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive

                If this is true, hopefully this means Microsoft is planning on investing in the country's very lacking broadband infrastructure and can talk ISPs out of using bandwidth caps. Maybe they know something we don't know, otherwise they will be alienating alot of consumers. I'll miss the smell of a freshly printed game manuals, all 2 pages of them.
                Last edited by stiffarmleft; 03-14-2012, 03:30 PM.

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                  • LambertandHam
                    All Star
                    • Jul 2010
                    • 8008
                    #35
                    Re: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive

                    Originally posted by stiffarmleft
                    If this is true, hopefully this means Microsoft is planning on investing in the country's very lacking broadband infratructure and can talk ISPs out of using bandwidth caps. Maybe they know something we don't know, otherwise they will be alienating alot of consumers. I'll miss the smell of a freshly printed game manuals, all 2 pages of them.

                    I'm all for a Steam like service, but I do agree that many ISP's have bandwidth caps. Comcast has a 250GB a month cap, and with my normal downloading, picking up 8-9GB games at a time will eat right through it.
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                      • mgoblue
                        Go Wings!
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 25477
                        #36
                        Re: Next Xbox To Have No Disc Drive

                        Originally posted by CMH
                        They are? Do you mean console hard drives? Because I could walk into a Best Buy and get TB sized hard drives for about one hundred bucks. It's ridiculous how inexpensive hard drives are today.
                        Yes, I meant console hard drives...
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