So they essentially put a new case on an existing Xbox One S chipset and only removed the disc drive?
That's fine.
That's fine.
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Windows Central: Xbox One S All-Digital Edition still has an eject button and disc drive port inside
- Thread starter Wandu
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I'm guessing if this hits some internal sales target, they'll build a more compact version to sell for a song when Scarlett launches
Not really. That would mean updating the motherboard for the S, which wouldn't be worth it.
The most they could have done with the case is take the chunk out where the drive was.
Evidently not, or they would've done it. Wouldn't be a total net loss though, as they'd realize some materials savings (however small).
thats exactly it. You can find me in the Unity free thread with Ubisoft giving it away, I've been playing around with settings to get 60 fps, sometime peeps just want to play a game, res/ framerate be damn, and it being slighlt less powerful is a shrug.
They don't have to retool which saves money (tooling easily goes into 6 digits USD)
but is also the reason why it takes no advantage of the drive being gone.
So they can either:
1. Spend money re-designing the system, board, layout, packaging, and having an entirely different manufacturing process
OR
2. Spend little on all of those, have a manufacturing process that basically skips a step, same packaging, and be able to take a harder loss on the sales.
Would have been interesting if they made it like this:
-smaller
-$199
-media remote instead of controller
-marketed as an apple tv/roku/shield killer; all the streaming apps + tv oneguide + xbox gaming
-smaller
-$199
-media remote instead of controller
-marketed as an apple tv/roku/shield killer; all the streaming apps + tv oneguide + xbox gaming
Material savings wouldn't cover the cost of developing and implementing a 3rd manufacturing process...
Yeah and if outside of the disc drive they could have gotten the One S smaller I'm sure they would have on the base model.
Well, if it had a smaller chassis (read: MS put more effort into making the One SAD), I probably could have been tempted to at least try gaming on it. But, as it stands, this is such an undesireable product, I cannot completely comprehend how they thought that this would pan out. Especially when looking at the included games as well... Uh. This turned out to be a really disappointing package overall in my opinion.
If we pretend way back in 2013, shareholders and top Xbox brass claiming the digital age is here! We just use disks as keys, you can download everything, game share; etc. It is GONNA BE GREAT! Fast forward to 2019 and that didn't turn out so well.
But..
What if the former Xbox regime promised an all digital Xbox to shareholders and our current group led by Phil had to comply under duress.
Maybe that is why we have the "xbox one S All Digidal Ed.; or maybe they figured the next gen would have external blue Ray drive and if customers really wanted them they would just buy that.
Dunno, board, waiting for E3...
But..
What if the former Xbox regime promised an all digital Xbox to shareholders and our current group led by Phil had to comply under duress.
Maybe that is why we have the "xbox one S All Digidal Ed.; or maybe they figured the next gen would have external blue Ray drive and if customers really wanted them they would just buy that.
Dunno, board, waiting for E3...
Hmm, usually you remove the components that isn't used and just leave the soldering pads empty, but it might be more expensive logistically to have two versions of the boards.
Interesting scenario if this means that you can buy a cheap SAD and just plug in any bluray drive and create your own regular Xbox One S. :P
Interesting scenario if this means that you can buy a cheap SAD and just plug in any bluray drive and create your own regular Xbox One S. :P
No. Drive is married to the console. Only MS can marry drive and console.
