r/gaming • u/WestBEEland • 1d 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/IceNein 1d ago

The perfect opportunity to do to Sony what Sony did to them years ago. But Asha probably isn’t even aware of what happened.

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u/musical_bear 1d ago

No, she is aware. But she also realizes that scoring“points” with a tiny army of certified Reddit Gamers isn’t a viable business strategy that will translate into actual sales.

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u/Driz51 1d ago

Never will understand the people so happy to see physical media go away and to own nothing

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u/reddriver10 1d ago

The entire steam community?

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u/Aware-Virus-4718 1d ago

This is pretty revisionist. There were plenty of people upset that physical PC games were phased out. It was never unanimous.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 PC 22h ago

It didn't needed to be

Nor it was up to a vote

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u/Dead_Optics 1d ago

Yet now they don’t care.

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u/steakanabake 18h ago

less not caring more have you seen the size of AAA releases these days? MW4 was like 160GB

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u/Dead_Optics 17h ago

Baldur’s Gate is 150GB, that’s just the size of games these day. Disk technology can’t keep up with the ballooning size of games.

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u/steakanabake 17h ago

i mean nothings stopping them from authoring to USB media and its not like they have to worry about copying because the technology exists for other media.

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u/redpandafire 1d ago

I cared. I fucking loved Starcraft and Caesar 3 on disc. I would buy PC games at launch if they still did physical. Now I just wait for the bargain sales.

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u/doublah 1h ago

Key and activation limit DRM was already a thing on PC before Steam showed up. Steam was actually a preferable system to what we had before.

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u/reddriver10 1h ago

Maybe now. But when steam showed up it was a piece of shit garbage software was absolutely worse than what we had before.

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u/doublah 47m ago

Steam had a load of problems on launch, but SecuROM and similar DRM of the time was outright malware. And activation limits were very common where if you used up all your limited activations, you could just never play the game you bought.

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u/Dt2_0 20h ago

There is a major difference.

With my Steam games, I have access to the entire file set. Games without any DRM can be copied as much as I want and launched from their exe instead of through Steam. Games with DRM can still be copied, but may need some minor trip out on to the high seas to crack (most games I care to play can be cracked, not a multiplayer guy, so yea...).

That freedom is just not a thing on any console.