My personal view of which is that the use of the word ‘adorably’ feels quite specifically design-led. I’ll get into this possibility in more detail in a moment, but it’s useful first to return to the specific wording of the Brooklin Series X leak. rather than sit in addition to the current model. This second leaked document clearly indicates that the upcoming discless Xbox Series X will replace. Namely that physical media not only isn’t part of Xbox’s future plans, but actively runs counter to the brand’s future vision. There is, perhaps, a third reason why an external disc drive for the Brooklin Series X feels unlikely - and it’s the one that physical media fans fear the most. When so much else IS covered in detail in the leaks, this abject absence of information on an external disc drive seems pretty telling. Second, there’s seemingly nothing in any of the vast quantity of recently leaked documents to suggest that Xbox has any plans at all to launch an external disc drive for Brooklin Xbox Series X. First, the world has changed dramatically in terms of how people access their media since the 360 rolled into town, with a huge surge in streaming and downloading. It seems to me there are two problems with hoping for an external disc drive for the Brooklin Series X, though. Essentially the 360’s HD DVD drive let you add a better quality video drive, whereas a potential Brooklin Series X add-on disc drive would be adding physical media support where otherwise there would be none. That optional extra didn’t sell particularly well, it has to be said - but then it was something of a different, more niche proposition given that the main Xbox 360 console already had a game and DVD disc drive built in. Something the company has (admittedly now quite distant) history of doing with the HD-DVD drive it released for the Xbox 360. The Brooklin Xbox Series X’s USB-C port could potentially be used to add an external disc drive if Xbox released one. In fact, another leaked Xbox slide categorically states that the so-called Brooklin Series X will offer upgrades to the functionality of the current Series X, such as double the internal storage and improved Wi-Fi and Bluetooth compatibility, and will mark the End Of Life for the current Series X console (which Xbox refers to in its internal documents as the ‘Starkville’ edition).Įven the wholesale replacement of the disc-carrying Xbox Series X with a discless version would not necessarily mean, though, that Xbox had given up on discs. Where this simple ‘it’s just Xbox offering another option for a different type of user’ argument falls pretty hard, though, is in the suggestion - statement, really - in Microsoft’s leaked documents to the effect that the upcoming Brooklin Series X would appear as a ‘refresh’ of the current Series X, priced at the same $500 level, rather than it being an addition to the range that might coexist with the current Series X at a slightly cheaper price point. The current Xbox Series X carries a disc drive - but how many people are actually using it? Photo: Microsoft
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