Microsoft considered removing Xbox One's disc drive

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Microsoft considered removing Xbox One's disc drive

Added: 02.01.2014 10:18 | 1 views | 0 comments

But "when you start looking at bandwith and game size, it does create issues.".
One of the big questions in the run-up to the Xbox One's announcement was whether Microsoft would drop the disc drive. Back in March 2012, for instance, Epic's Tim Sweeney suggested that a disc-less Xbox One that runs all games on solid state media would have "a dramatic advantage", though he qualified that this is "a completely separate question" from how games are distributed.