XBOX Lite a reality, NOT Rumor!

**chewy_fett** · 03-24-2003

I was talking to the owner of a local video game store over the weekend. We were discussing accessories, and third party accessory support. He said that they just received word from Microsoft that the DVD Kits would trickle to close to none. The reason for this is Microsoft will be releasing XBOX LITE at E3.

From what he said, it will be roughly the size of a Sega Dreamcast and will no longer have a built in hard-drive, but will have built in DVD playback support.

The main reason for this move his it will cost substantially less to manufacture.

The best part is, he said they will retail for $99! No more free game though.

**RudedogX** · 03-24-2003

I'll believe it when there is an official announcement at E3 or something. Until then...it is still a rumor.

**JJaX** · 03-24-2003

Its possible, but never believe anything those clowns say.

Ive had game store employees tell me

- The GR add on Island thunder isnt real, because its not in the computer.

- Xbox will have DOA characters in soul calibur 2.

You get the point....I just dont feel the need to argue with them. Because they're dumb.

**LynxFX** · 03-24-2003

Originally posted by chewy_fett
will no longer have a built in hard-drive

That was all you had to say to know that this is FAKE! The games wouldn't work without a harddrive since they are coded to cache to it. Let alone custom sound tracks, downloads, game saves.

Xbox Lite may be coming but with the specs you said, no way.

**MerimacHamwich** · 03-24-2003

Originally posted by chewy_fett
I was talking to the owner of a local video game store over the weekend. We were discussing accessories, and third party accessory support. He said that they just received word from Microsoft that the DVD Kits would trickle to close to none. The reason for this is Microsoft will be releasing XBOX LITE at E3.

From what he said, it will be roughly the size of a Sega Dreamcast and will no longer have a built in hard-drive, but will have built in DVD playback support.

The main reason for this move his it will cost substantially less to manufacture.

The best part is, he said they will retail for $99! No more free game though.

I extremely doubt they would take out the harddrive. That would leave some Xbox games unplayable. I think what you heard is a rumour, expecially seeing as the harddrives aren't that large, nor do they up the price much.

**Casper** · 03-24-2003

Hell, for the hard drive, it could be the same size that they use for laptops...no space at all really. And they won't get rid of it, like the others said, due to it's necessity for storage and it's huge selling point so you won't need memory cards.

Btw, helluva first post

**Cyclone** · 03-24-2003

Not to mention that if you dropped the hd, in a lot of games like SegaGT 2002 you wouldnt be able to save your game anymore. They wont let you save directly to memory cards, you have to save to the hard drive and then use the Xbox menu to transfer the save to the memorycard. That's the only way

**XBOX Dude** · 03-24-2003

that's why you don't talk to the people at the store they have a ton of bs rumors, all they do is talk all day about games and evetually they have to keep coming up with discussion topics so there gonna start bsing it's just a matter of time

**wweomaniac** · 03-24-2003

yup, the hardraive part didn't click with me. I don't believe it either, b/c this is noe feature that differentiates xbox from the other consoles.

I myself believe that xbox lite is just going to be a smaller version of the xbox with the same features.

**SiGuy** · 03-24-2003

Hey not all game store employees are bad. I watched one of em give a ps2 owner ****.... pretty funny. This thing is going to take a dive even if it comes out. The whole reason I bought XBOX was because of the built in hard drive. Also, why would someone buy this when they get 100 some dollars worth of games when they buy the original. One word... crash

**Snake Eyez** · 03-24-2003

I smell something in this thread coming from chewy's direction.

**l Maximus l** · 03-24-2003

XBox Lite does not come with a hard-drive. Well, according to those that have less than 10 posts

**chewy_fett** · 03-24-2003

Man, you guys must like ripping into someone that you don't agree with, huh? The guy I talked to was not a pimple faced employee, he owns the place, hence the reason I believe him.

The entire issue with the hard drive is a moot point in my opinion. I am not an engineer, and I think it is a safe bet that no one else waxing poetic with their "witty" smart ass comments are either.

That said, you don't know for a fact that the hard drive will be retained just as I don't know for a fact that it will be scraped.

It does sound completely logical that a smaller HDD could be used, and that may be the way it goes.

I smell something in this thread coming from chewy's direction.

What does that mean?? I was simply relaying information that I thought would be pertinent to these boards. So, because I have no post count, and you don't personally agree with me, I'm shrugged off? I will never understand this concept, completely alien to me.

**PapaSKooT** · 03-24-2003

Originally posted by Maximus-XBA
XBox Lite does not come with a hard-drive. Well, according to those that have less than 10 posts

exactly... never trust people with less than 10 posts, its the XBA way!

**ShannonX** · 03-24-2003

Originally posted by chewy_fett
Man, you guys must like ripping into someone that you don't agree with, huh? The guy I talked to was not a pimple faced employee, he owns the place, hence the reason I believe him.

The entire issue with the hard drive is a moot point in my opinion. I am not an engineer, and I think it is a safe bet that no one else waxing poetic with their "witty" smart ass comments are either.

That said, you don't know for a fact that the hard drive will be retained just as I don't know for a fact that it will be scraped.

It does sound completely logical that a smaller HDD could be used, and that may be the way it goes.

What does that mean?? I was simply relaying information that I thought would be pertinent to these boards. So, because I have no post count, and you don't personally agree with me, I'm shrugged off? I will never understand this concept, completely alien to me.

hahah, if it doesnt have a harddrive its not an xbox. Actually, it would be a PS2 (or GC), hmmm, never thought of that before.

and yes, you MUST have a harddrive for alot of the games to work. Its hardcoded into the games code to cache data on the harddrive for quicker retrieval, doing away with the harddrive would just create games that didn't work or worked so poorly there would be no reason to play the games. There is no debate, its called FACT.

**MerimacHamwich** · 03-24-2003

Exactly, no harddrive means no Xbox. It would be a completely different system. The harddrive is needed to play most games.

**ARONO129** · 03-24-2003

Hi Chewy welcome. Don't get the wrong idea. Most people here are really nice. The way I see it you were just mentioning something you heard about the Xbox Lite. Nothing offensive about what you posted.

**Viper87227** · 03-25-2003

Originally posted by PapaShaddix
exactly... never trust people with less than 10 posts, its the XBA way!

hmmm kinda funny seeing as how at one point you also had less than 10 posts. Did you not trust yourself during that rough patch of your life?

**l Maximus l** · 03-25-2003

Originally posted by Viper87227
hmmm kinda funny seeing as how at one point you also had less than 10 posts. Did you not trust yourself during that rough patch of your life?

You betcha! And, at one time, I was an idiot as well