Xbox 720: No disk drive, No used games.

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Wolfram23

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Not a bad time to get a cheap PC, then. Same deal just way more useful and often much cheaper games. How does a $500 gaming PC sound to you? Which, btw, would be far more powerful than the 720 with it's 6670.

Case: XCLIO Mid Tower case $29.99
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CPU: Intel Pentium G850 2.9ghz Sandy Bridge dual core $92.99
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RAM: Crucial Ballistix 4gb 1333mhz $24.99
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Motherboard: MSI H67MS-E43 Micro ATX $86.99
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Graphics Card: HIS 5770 1gb $104.99 (Plus Dirt 3 for free)
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Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart SP-530P 530W 80 Plus Certified $69.99
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Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB 7200RPM $89.99
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Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit $114.99
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DVD drive $15.99
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Total: $499.92

Without finding any deals or sales...
 

Vkmies

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veloper said:
Vkmies said:
Am I the only one worried about the future of collecting? As a hardcore collector, I feel that my kind are ignored. Alot. When physical games stop coming forever, there will be nothing to collect anymore. even though I specialize in retro games, new games will be retro in the future!

Retro gaming will die when the next generation becomes retro and current retro goes so rare, it's imbossible to find.
Nintendo I guess.
They would be the last ones you'd expect to go 100% DD. Reason: lots of kids play N.
Children don't have money let alone credit cards and parents don't download games for their kids as a present, so retail it is.

This is a good opportunity for Nintendo in any case.
Interesting point.

But will the future change all that? When let's say, the late teens of today become parents, being grown with the digital entertaiment industry, would they think differently? Would they have a problem downloading games to children as presents?

Theoretically, N would indeed be the last 100% physical game company. And they would frankly get alot of money for being the only company selling physical games in this hyppotethical future we have created for ourselves.

But wouldn't they eventually have to move on to digital distribution like everyone else? Could they fight the prices of games without plastic and paper coming with them?

In my eyes, the future of digital gaming is an interesting one. It will make playing new games easier and faster. But if you look at it from the eyes of a collector and a retro gamer, it is also scary.

Your game library leans on the servers of your preferred video game company. When they go down, so does your collection. And no company has money to run a 10 year old service, if they have 2 newer services up and running as well. We will have no physical things to stack, to collect, to feel and smell.
I know I am a minority, but one of the biggest pleasures in my life is buying games 30 years old. Thinking about the journey of that one piece of plastic, ending up in my arms all this time later. Putting it in and getting transferred into another time.
The smell of old boxes and the vibrant colours of old manuals will be something future retro-loving generations wont be able to enjoy, without investing most likelly, enormous amounts of money to consoles that then, will be over 50 years old.

None of those people will be able to go buy Portal 2 on the PC in 50 years and go home and enjoy it. Even if Steam was still around, the online code would render said box and disc useless. I feel for those people. I am glad I live in a time when collecting is both fun and affordable. And you can get almost every game ever and just play it. With a few expections like Phantasy Star Online. Sad to think that almost every game will be "Phantasy Star Online" in the future.

EDIT: Post number 1300? That must be a milestone of SOME KIND!
 

godofallu

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MeChaNiZ3D said:
godofallu said:
NameIsRobertPaulson said:
No used games? Bah who cares, Steam doesn't have used games and that doesn't slow me down at all. If they make new games like 55USD instead of 60 they might be able to get consumers to think of this as a plus.
Yeah, but the difference is that Steam isn't run by Microsoft. I hope you're right, but I think Microsoft would just crush their market until they've gotten all the juice out rather than provide reasonable prices, or even...sales. 0_0
Well the sales on steam are designed to squeeze all of the money out of each game as they can get.

They use the same pricing scheme as stores like Gap. Start off slightly overpriced and then slowly lower the price in order to get as many people buying the product at their maximum price.

Microsoft currently on the other hand doesn't seem to be pushing their full retail download games very hard, as opposed to their arcade games. I'd imagine this is due to the speed of downloads, and the size of hard drives. On the next xbox they could make download speeds much faster, and hard drives much larger.