cant wait till this years e3

I JUST WANT E3 ALREADY!! :[

But I still really like physical media. Not ready to go entirely all digital.

WHAT, thats terrible!!! wait whats a optical drive.

Please let this be true. Less moving parts = less broken consoles. Optical disk drives are slow anyways. Long live the cartridge!

If this is true, Microsoft just lost a future customer.

I find this hard to believe. Microsoft has tried so hard to make the 360 your destination for all media needs. They're not going to just drop the ability to play DVD's/CD's.

Hmm... Microsoft should take a note from the history of Nintendo. Cartridges are a bad idea.

I knew one day the cartridege would come back now I gotta blow at it to make it work just like the nes and snes

So, we wont be able to use our xbox to play physical dvd/blu-rays that's going to kind of suck. I use mine for that alot.

Hmm interesting concept. Let's see what E3 brings us this year.

Perhaps in the generation to follow (next-next) we could expect changes like this… but certainly not so soon.

Going from an optical drive to a solid state card would be almost like going back to cartridges like Nintendo used to use.

I'm sorry but could someone explain? Does that mean if they do this we would have to buy all Xbox games digitally. In other words does "The source says the system will have support for a removable solid-state storage card instead, which could be another step toward a digitally distributed future." mean that this will be entirely digitally distributed or something like it. If that does mean completely digital for the Xbox I will be really pissed. I HATE!!!!!!!!!! the idea of a completely digital future. I HATE it with a passion. If they are trying to act like "Ooh look at us we went even a step farther than Sony!" they should just shut the hell up, suck it up, and admit that they were wrong in the Blu-ray HD battle. Just do Blu-ray and stop screwing about. I really hope that the anonymous source is full of crap.

so wait we're going back to cartridges? i can dig it. with how far tech has come since the N64 just imagine how much data could be on a cartridge. i mean i have a solid state drive in my computer thats smaller than my cell phone and it has 64gb on it.

I'll believe it when I see it. At this point, I think too many people are claiming to have "sources" inside Microsoft and it seems like bs to me. Also, I really don't think that we'll be seeing a new console until 2014.

I'd rather own my games thank you. If you go away from physical products then you get into the whole ownership debate that has already been showing up. EA already essentially says that players don't own the online portions of their games. What happens when the digital marketplace decides its no longer profitable for them to keep something you paid for available to you? Not mention that if you get rid of physical copies of games more than one great under appreciated title of the future will be lost to history. Imagine a game like Alan Wake being completely gone without a trace because sales are slow. We're at the point now where a good number of games from the first couple years of XBLA are simply not available anymore. I don't think the industry understands the storage issues for consoles that would come with every game being digitally distributed. With DLC games can easily reach the 10GB range. Are they going to give us 500-750GB HDDs at launch if they do this? Are they going to drop the price by $10-15 if they go digital? They should, PC games are. If they stick at $60 it's a rip off, because that extra $10 is justified by the cost of putting a product on a shelf. On the other hand, this would seem to line up with the, "no used games", rumor that has been going around. All digital no used games.

there are some up points to this; if this new console comes out as soon as 2013, or even a little later, it wont completely make the 360 obsolete. people who don't own a 360 will still be able to buy one, and probably cheaper by then, and developers can still release disc-based games for the 360, which in turn the price of disc releases may drop as well. as for the new console, it better rock some super specs in order to really kick ass. it should atleast double the power of the 360. but in turn, you know they will try and rush it out in order to beat sony in sales, that front runner lead proved itself with the 360. and at that same time, it might be better to wait for the second version, or upgraded version to release, you know how it goes. which still doesnt turn me off to the idea because the 360 will still be playable for years to come.