News - Microsoft says $399 Xbox One lite rumours are unfounded

[HEXUS]

But what of the other rumours about the Blu-ray removal, white chassis and 1TB HDD?

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[crossy]

Maybe it's just the picture, but the white one doesn't look nearly as much of a design train-wreck as the normal black one does.

Question: if there's no optical drive does that mean that it's download only to get games? Or is there some (really clever but unlikely) arrangement where you can share out an optical drive image from your Window8.1 PC?

[Bagpuss]

Microsoft denying something.....must be true then.

[MonkeyL]

Keep the optical drive and make Kinnect optional.

Ta-Dah

[Saracen]

Keep the optical drive and make Kinnect optional.

Ta-Dah

Agreed. With mandatory Kinect, my interest = 0. It's not my only reservation, but it's enough all by itself,

[failquail]

Keep the optical drive and make Kinnect optional.

Ta-Dah

Thats what i've seen mentioned on other sites, and that makes far more sense.

Kinect is expensive, ODD drives barely cost anything at all these days.

And as someone who would never use kinect willingly, a version without one would make me consider an xbox-one for the first time.