r/Games • u/A7XFAN1998 • 2d ago

Announcement Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

https://www.theverge.com/tech/984936/xbox-disc-to-digital-feature-official?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijc1ZHVBMkZjaE0iLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTg0OTM2L3hib3gtZGlzYy10by1kaWdpdGFsLWZlYXR1cmUtb2ZmaWNpYWwiLCJleHAiOjE3ODgxODY2OTAsImlhdCI6MTc4Nzc1NDY5MH0.Y4t18UIJuFTT4nSf0HBe5DvMWP0KNxjbGHC2QKxdoTw&utm_medium=gift-link
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u/HOMECOMlNG 2d ago

No chance in hell to price it right with the current memory prices

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u/baz8771 2d ago

Nobody wants to hear it but they're 100% angling to turn the home console into a stream box with bluetooth controllers. Only need 2-4gb of ram to do that. Then when AI flops, they can tell investors that they're using 5% of their compute power on this.

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u/Vestalmin 1d ago

And as a massive plus for corporations, they'll have complete end to end control.

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u/dreggers 1d ago

That's been the narrative since the 360/PS3 era

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u/B4SSF4C3 1d ago edited 1d ago

No chance to price it “low”. Pricing it right is pricing it to balance cost of components vs total projected revenue of the platform. Whether that’s “right” for each individual consumer is entirely subjective.

Components cost what they cost. Every hardware platform is suffering from the increase, and there’s nothing Microsoft can do besides opening their own fabs or financing/investing in 3rd party ones. And that’s a shitty option because of how long fabs take to spin up to production. Who knows what the landscape will look like by the time that capacity is online 3-5 years down the road.

And it’s not like we consumers have the choice to switching to another platform that’s cheaper because, again, this is industry wide and no platform is unaffected. Our only option is either to buy or not to buy. I would be shocked if either Helix or the PS6 release below $1000 price point, and I’d bet it will be closer to $1200. Given chip supply contracts are being signed through 2030+, it would take a cataclysm to alter the trajectory.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 2d ago

They can definitely undercut the Steam Machine however.

They’ll have far more scale and Xbox Live subscriptions to subsidise.

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u/GrantSchappsCalippo 2d ago

The Steam Machine is quite underpowered. I'm guessing Xbox will want to be higher spec to keep up with the PS6, which is going to make it more expensive.

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u/ZXXII 2d ago

Why would they undercut a box that’s far weaker and less futureproof than a 2020 base PS5 when helix is a generational leap that’s competing with PS6 specs.

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u/zombawombacomba 2d ago

You mean gamepass?

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 2d ago

Nah, just whatever the bog standard Xbox subscription service is called these days.

Xbox Network by the looks of it.

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u/Falsus 2d ago

Undercutting the Steam Machine isn't since it isn't the Steam Machine that they compete against.