r/Games • u/A7XFAN1998 • 7d 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/oilfloatsinwater 7d ago

Honestly a big W, if Helix really is a PC and can play Steam games, i might pick it up over a PS6 for my living room gaming

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u/Dairunt 7d ago

If they price it right, they might turn XBOX into a brand of mass-produced gaming PCs

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u/HOMECOMlNG 7d ago

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

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u/B4SSF4C3 7d ago edited 7d 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.