Support for the optical drive in Xbox One added only at the last moment

You are not tired of optical drives? Take the prefixes though. If they did not have optical drives, the games would have become much cheaper, because there would have been an obvious savings on the face on the same printing, packaging and burning. In the end, games can be downloaded from the web, you know. You'd be surprised, but despite the fact that the new Xbox One game console offers the availability of a Blu-ray drive, Microsoft at one point was going to completely abandon the disk storage in the new console.

In an interview with the official British magazine Xbox Magazine, Phil Spencer from Microsoft Studio shared some very interesting news. It turns out that the company could not decide whether or not to use an optical drive until the second half of 2013.

“A fierce discussion raged in the company over whether the new console should have an optical drive. As a result, we could completely abandon the use of disks, but realized that the size of the games and the speed of their download via the Internet could cause a number of certain difficulties for the owners of Xbox One. ”

It was quite amusing to see that as a result of these decisions at the last moment Microsoft faced a serious wave of criticism regarding the requirements of permanently connecting the set-top box to the Web, as well as draconian DRM protection measures. Realizing the state of affairs is very precarious, the company decided against sin to quickly abandon all prohibitions and restrictions. In addition, users clearly would not like the need to download each game from the web and the inability to play it without the presence of the Internet. Therefore, Microsoft in this regard has made the right choice in favor of optical media.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/consoles/podderzhku-opticheskogo-privoda-v-xbox-one-dobavili-lish-v-poslednij-moment.html.