Report: Microsoft Prepping $399 Xbox One Without Blu-ray

Microsoft company is said to be planning an Xbox One without a Blu-ray generate that could be marketed for $399 at retail store. That would affect $100 off the current Xbox One cost of $499 and carry it in line with the $399 competing Sony models expenses for its PlayStation 4.

The gossip comes from game playing site VG247, which on Friday launched a review declaring that an un-named resource had verified a details about a new Xbox One SKU without a actual press player that popped up in a value chest of Xbox gossips showing this week on game playing community NeoGaf.

Microsoft did not instantly react to a demand for opinion. Possibly including some credibility to the NeoGaf gossips and VG247's confirming was a Kotaku post on Friday that stated yet another un-named resource at Microsoft company has said the application massive is "currently trying to track down and recognize 'ntkrnl'," the online handle of the NeoGaf leaker.

The Xbox One has marketed quickly since its launch on Nov. 22, and by some records it sold more copies than the PS4 in Dec. Other market viewers placed Sony as the early innovator in models marketed after the first few weeks of the next-gen console conflicts, with the cost distinction between the Xbox One and PS4 mentioned as one factor illustrating customers to the Sony models camping.

If Microsof company does launch an Xbox One without a Blu-ray generate, it would carry to being a chronic gossip born before the heir to the Xbox 360 was even launched, namely that the new console would give up actual press for a pure-play reasoning submission plan for games and press material.

Redmond has of course been forcing reasoning submission of material for its new console, while leaking apparently directing to future modifications to the Xbox rule known as Fortaleza recommend that the removal of actual press on the console is unavoidable.

But there's also another exciting way to look at the said cost fall Microsoft company would supposedly achieve by disposal Blu-ray in a new SKU. When IHS iSuppli did a teardown of the Xbox One last Nov to figure out a bill-of-materials (BOM) calculate, the analysis company realized that the combining of the Xbox 360 kinect 2.0 indicator was the primary car owner of the $100 distinction in cost between Windows system and the PS4.

IHS realized that Microsoft company was only spending about $32 on Blu-ray pushes from Lite-On for the Xbox One. Since Redmond may already be selling its new games consoles at a loss, per the analysis company, would it really appear sensible to lose even more, supposing the BOM numbers from IHS are correct?

Now, if Microsoft company was planning to offer an Xbox One without Xbox 360 kinect, the said cost cut to $399 would sound a lot more possible. But the application massive has made it pretty clear that its perspective for the System has Xbox 360 kinect as a vital, can't-do-without-it element, so that seems unlikely to happen.