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http://www.xbox360forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36958
Bad news for HD-DVD as Microsoft goes Blu
Article by Rachel Konrad 06/04/07 The Associated Press
There is Bad news on the horizon for X-Box 360's HD-DVD Drive owners as Peter Moore told Rachel Konrad on a recent trip to Japan while entering negotiations with Pioneer. Microsoft's Xbox corporate VP of worldwide marketing and publishing Peter Moore told Japanese site ITmedia that the imminent release of the Blu-ray Xbox 360 peripheral could appear for the system before Christmas. Moore admitted that Microsoft's opinion on HD-DVD as the Next Generation format winner is bleak with the worst-case scenario being a repeat of the Beta vs.VHS war of the '80s. Moore also added Microsoft is giving the consumers the most cutting edge technology out there and In this moment in time Blu-Ray is that.
As per usual Peter Moore couldn't help but have a go at Sony and the PS3 "However, he suggested that whatever the outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war, the Xbox 360 can adopt the dominant format since its uses an external drive. He also suggested that it's a weak point for PlayStation 3, saying Sony's system is stuck with only 1 format. Microsoft announced the Blu-Ray peripheral will connect to the Xbox 360 using one of the system's USB ports. Moore once again confirmed that the Blu Ray add-on for the Xbox 360 is only for watching movies, and there are currently no plans to use it for games, nor are there plans to release an Xbox 360 with an internal Blu Ray drive.
[Edited on 08-05-2007 by Rus]
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Why not just have both on the shelves?
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they always said they didnt choose one format over the other. either way im not fussed as i dont own any HD/Blu ray titles and will wait until the standalones are cheaper.
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the first link doesn't work.
the link to itmedia talks about the poor sale of the ps3 during the holiday season.
the link to engadget talks about a $300 blu-ray COMPUTER drive, not an xbox 360 add-on drive.
the last link is from a rumor from January 2006. it's a year old rumor with no proof.
thread failed.
also MS have not said they will stop selling HD DVD drives, i should imagine both will be available
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Nath
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 Not just me that couldnt find anything concrete in any of those links then
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Rus
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talk about shoot the messenger
i only copied it from another forum. pff
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first link does work
second is in japanese 
third doesn't work
fourth, yeah your right. it is a year old
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speculation IMO
i dont care either way whichs wins tbh as MS will bring out whatever is most used
[Edited on 08-05-2007 by Steve]
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i dont care either, but whatever they do choose, i hope they make it compatible for games, as that is a major edge PS3 has over the 360
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storage space of a normal DVD will easily outlast both consoles, wont be til the next gen of consoles come along will the capacity of Blu ray or HD DVD be needed
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steve you know nothing about game development whatsoever. you cannot say that as you have no idea what developers have in mind etc. the larger the game, the more space you need, its simple. if people want to make huge games, they will develop for Blu-ray/HD DVD
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i dont know anything, this is from reading from people that develop the games
take oblivion, that game is absolutely HUGE, and that takes up a 1/2 of the space, go figure
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or use multi dvds
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its a lame argument, GoW also used less than half of the space it could have used
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He also suggested that it's a weak point for PlayStation 3, saying Sony's system is stuck with only 1 format. Microsoft announced the Blu-Ray peripheral will connect to the Xbox 360 using one of the system's USB ports.
what a load of crap, whats to stop sony from making an external one that connects to the USB port
MS Chump.
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nothing but its a bit poor if it did fail that youve paid an extra couple of hundred quid to get a device thats pretty much useless, and then have to spend more money getting something that is right
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im not going to argue with you, because you will both spout bullshit all days about how anything that MS doesnt do, is crap.
i know for a fact that certain developers can see problems starting to rise with disc space on a DVD.
Yes, the games arent using all the disc space at the moment, but imagine if they had made the game more in-depth. more speech, more textures, more video.....
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SONY CHUMP
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quote:
Originally posted by dave17
im not going to argue with you, because you will both spout bullshit all days about how anything that MS doesnt do, is crap.
i know for a fact that certain developers can see problems starting to rise with disc space on a DVD.
Yes, the games arent using all the disc space at the moment, but imagine if they had made the game more in-depth. more speech, more textures, more video.....
use a 2nd disk
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I dont care who wins. I just want the best from my gaming experience!
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quote:
Originally posted by dave17
im not going to argue with you, because you will both spout bullshit all days about how anything that MS doesnt do, is crap.
i know for a fact that certain developers can see problems starting to rise with disc space on a DVD.
Yes, the games arent using all the disc space at the moment, but imagine if they had made the game more in-depth. more speech, more textures, more video.....
like i said, not my thoughts, what iv read from games developers themselves, if they want to add more sppech, textures whatever theres plenty of space to do so
theres no way games are suddenly going to get twice as big in the next 3 years its taken about 9 years to go from 700mb to about 4gig
the only games that require loads of space are sims, like Flight Sim which is about 6 gig, however you wont get sims like that on a console
[Edited on 08-05-2007 by Steve]
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gta4 is having issues with the lack of disk space on the xbox at the moment. i made a thread about it a few days ago
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nothing but its a bit poor if it did fail that youve paid an extra couple of hundred quid to get a device thats pretty much useless, and then have to spend more money getting something that is right
live life on the edge
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gta4 is having issues with the lack of disk space on the xbox at the moment. i made a thread about it a few days ago
thats hardrive space rus, a different issue entireley and only affects people with core systems
[Edited on 08-05-2007 by Steve]
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
I dont care who wins. I just want the best from my gaming experience!
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