Xbox Series X and PS5 both have 4K / Blu Ray / DVD capabilities.
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variants@possumpat.io 11 months agoI don’t think most people have a device that can play disks anymore it’s kind of crazy to think about but I haven’t owned something with a disk drive in several years apart from a old cd player I found in the ewaste I keep at work because I don’t want to throw it away
jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Psythik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And I own neither of these. PC all the way. Last time I had a disc drive was 2008.
hperrin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Xbox and PlayStation can both play Bluray, so a lot of people still have the option. But who cares if most people don’t want them? Most people don’t want a Chromebook, but they carry those.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 months ago
Best Buy number crunchers care. Profit is relative to floor space required.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The cheaper drive-less PS5 and Xbox Series S are the more popular models.
And people who “have the option” clearly are not buying disks like they used to. If that floor space was a cash cow, they’d keep it around. Best Buy isn’t a charity. Floor space needs to be driving sale somehow.
In the case of Chromebooks, they would be the entry level price point that inevitably upsells someone to a more capable Microsoft or Apple machine. Or hell, for all I know, that table could be a negotiated requirement from Google. Want to sell Pixel, Nest, Eero, and Chromecast product? Then you need to give us that 8x5 oak table for these shitty laptops.
variants@possumpat.io 11 months ago
I know a lot of highschools use Chromebooks so that might influence it as well
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 months ago
This generation has diskless versions though.