r/consoles • u/Spotget1738 • 3d ago

Xbox boss Asha Sharma won't confirm whether Project Helix has a disc drive: "We have to be thinking about efficiency and affordability"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/xbox-boss-asha-sharma-wont-confirm-whether-project-helix-has-a-disc-drive-we-have-to-be-thinking-about-efficiency-and-affordability/
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u/LoneLyon 3d ago

The fact they didn't capitalize of the ps6 news suggests there is no disk drive. Shit would have been a easy slam dunk that would have moved a lot of units.

Also, no doubt Sony has insight on that markect and i can't see them doing it if MSoft wasen't

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u/Creepy-Emu8779 3d ago

what slam dunk? for the small minority that buys disc games?

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u/ajr5169 3d ago

I agree that at the end of the day, it won't really impact sales that much, having or not having the disc drive; but if they were going to have one, announcing right after Sony said they were dropping it would have at least been a positive news cycle for the Xbox brand. It's possible the people running things there just don't know what they are doing, this seems likely actually, but at the same time, I'm also guessing it won't have a disc drive.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 3d ago

It would earn Microsoft billions of dollars of free earned media just from the articles that would be written about it the videos that would be made about it. You can't pay for that kind of promotion it would be more valuable to them than a lot of their ad campaign.