Guys, what do you think is the probability of a $250 discless SKU? That way they can do a "price drop" but not really drop the price and the increase in digital revenues would be huge. It would also leave a lot of room for a huge redesign of the console itself.
I think there were rumors early last year about a cheaper digital box, but either those plans were scrapped or were never in the cards.
Thing is, there's still R&D to be done, even if it's essentially just designing and making a box without a disk drive. Then all the marketing and manufacturing costs for it.
Then there's if consumers will even take to digital games where they will be reliant on mostly Xbox Live pricing. I'm not sure where digital sales for games stand in comparison to retail to know how lucrative such a shift would be for the system to be that attractive.
Also have to keep in mind that a large number of consumers are unfortunately still unable to access internet with decent speeds and caps to where all digital is viable.
Would be interesting to see though and I feel that all digital skus will be a thing in the next few years. But I think Microsoft has to start getting close to turning a profit, if not already, on the system to take that jump.
I can [hoping to] be underestimating consumers being able/wanting a digital sku, so I could be misjudging all this. But right now with everything that is seemingly going on behind the scenes at Microsoft, it might be too much of a risk for them in their eyes.
It's a deal, nothing nefarious.
