Rumor: Disc-Less Xbox One S to Launch in May - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2019 / 3,410 Views
It was first reported last year that Microsoft was planning to release an Xbox One S console in 2019 without a disc drive. Windows Central is now reporting the console will release in early May 2019.
The disc-less Xbox One S is codenamed Xbox Maverick, but the report is saying it will be called Xbox One S All-Digital Edition with pre-orders opening in the middle of April 2019.
Dropping the disc drive should make the console even cheaper. Microsoft has been pushing Xbox Game Pass with all new first-party games coming out for the subscription service on day of release.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
More Articles
Yeah, really trust digital, no thanks. Hope it fails, like some others have said, hope Sony do not ever drop physical.
One S All-Digital Edition...
So... XBOX ONE "SAD" EDITION? Why not call it Xbox one S Digital or Xbox one D?
I can already see the jokes, "Sad box one".
Xbox One ADS (All Digital Slim). Also ties into fps and aim down sights. I'd say that's better but then again someone is bound to turn ADS into AIDS.
I mean Xbox One D makes sense but wouldn't save them from a funny acronym. It would shorten to XBOneD. Ignoring acronyms though, "All-Digital" is just really weird and awkward phrasing. I would call it the Xbox One XD, for X-Disk, as in Diskless. Shortens to XBOXD. Of course this creates confusion with the Xbox One X, but that wasn't a great name to begin with, so they did that to themselves. So I guess call it the Xbox One SXD for the S version and just Xbox One XD for the X version?
Well since it's an S version to being with, leaving the X out entirely would make sense because that could definitely cause a lot of confusion. Xbox One SD maybe? Just drop the X?
Oh wait, it could stand for Sans-Disk! Yeah, I guess they could drop the X then. Anything is better than "All-Digital" Edition.
That or standard definition actually just came to mind. I wouldn't think that many people today would assume that MS was trying to sell it for cheaper because it's not HD, but who knows? With XB deciding to go with the single letter S and X type naming scheme, I would think it would make sense to stick with something like that.
Unless the disc-less version is half the price of its counterpart, there's no reason to be supporting giving the industry more potential to abuse customers. I wont buy a disc-less console anyways but at half-price I could at least understand why others would.
Because releasing a discless version of an ageing console worked out so well for the PSP Go, amirite?
That was a decade ago, digital sales have gone up exponentially since then.
The PSP didn't have most of their games available digital which isn't the case with the X1 which pretty much has all their games available digital only a handful have been de listed so far and a lot of them are only available digitally. Plus the PSP Go didn't have a lot of storage space plus extra storage wasn't cheap.
Ya it's one of those weird arguments I've never understood, "X device from Y amount of years ago failed so clearly this will too". Just because something is executed poorly doesnt mean that the concept is a bad idea. If we followed that logic than Sony should have never released PS VR because of how poor Virtual Boy was or Wii should have failed because the Power Glove bombed or Switch should be doing poorly because the Sega Nomad sucked.
Back then even PC gamers where still buying much physical copies compared to 99% digital nowadays, and the only digital games on consoles were indies. The times simply have changed. A lot.. On top of that, the PSP Go had a tiny, non expendable storage while the XBO has much more storage and can hook up external hard drives if needed.
Why even bother buying an Xbox One S? They waved the white flag when they were going to put all Xbox games on other platforms. It would literally be a door stop at this point.
If it comes at the expected 200$, it will be 100$ cheaper than the competition, so much more affordable for many who don't have any of the other platforms yet. Besides, we still don't know what that exactly entails with the other platforms.
Xcloud... disc less xbox. I wonder if these announcements will coincide....
I think this is a nice option for those people who just doesn't care about physical. I just hope they don't price it over $200 because I think this plus gamepass will be a solid option for budget oriented gamers. I'm also really curious to see how this will affect X1 sales.
Oyua is making a comeback. I did not see this, totally blindsided.
Okay, we hear about this rumor ever other fucking month and that includes last gen. I don't even care anymore, just make it happen so websites can stop making these rumors.
I'm pretty sure it will release at a 199$ pricepoint. Microsoft wouldn't loose any money on that considering they are removing a Blu-Ray 4K drive, which doesn't come cheap.
I don't think it will be a huge hit, but it may be enough to stabilize XBO sales a bit until Scarlet releases.
Essay Pro