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How does that help those who have bought Microsoft's defunct technology? Oh that's right, they will have to buy a new Blue Ray DVD plug in drive.
Microsoft maybe cheaper than the PS3, but you end up paying more for cheap. As the saying goes, no one regrets buying quality.
I am glad that I never bought an Xbox with HD DVD drive. What a waste that would have been.
Doubt there is anywhere near that amount of HD DVD addons for the 360. Its ok. People who bought it knew the risk, but its not like tomorrow its a paper weight. They still have discs that won't need replacing until they have them in Blu-Ray. Recall that some of those movies came out only in HD DVD.
The 360 was always cheaper than the PS3 because of the inclusion of BR.
BR next battle is with on-demand providers. Cable companies, BlockBuster, Netflix, Xbox Live and Apple TV. Every TV can use these options, but only HD TV's can really use a BR player. Heck only second generation HD TV's have 1080p. From 2001? Until about 2006 all HD sets were 720p/1080i...which cant use BR to its max resolution.
BR will make money but I can see on-demand cutting into its possible success.
Anyway, it's kind of a moot point because I don't reckin MSFT will be putting BD into xbox at all. It would be a major climbdown if they did.
Companies use each other technologies all the time.
And for those of you who hate Sony, ur all poor and can't afford Sony products. :)
Make no mistake, MS are out to sell MS gear, and don't care a Monkey's chuff about formats apart from their own. Xbox Live is their deal. That's what they see as the evolution of Xbox. HD-DVD is someone else's problem.
don't make better movies than Paramount or Dreamworks put
together with all these awsome titles coming out for HD DVD, HD
will surely win this battle. Its really sad that those smaller
companies like Toshiba backed out that was just bad
management.Besides there are slot of good companies backing
HD DVD MS,Paramount ,Dreamworks, the list goes on there is
no competition HD has the better formats
"Well for those users still waiting make a purchase of a next GEN gaming consoles, the PS3 come standard with the next gen DVD format and ours comes with a RROD".
I doubt that. Seeing as a VERY small percentage of people have broadband. I do, and I still wouldn't want to download a movie (assuming the audio and video quality are Hi Def). And what about companies like Comcast that are throttling certain bandwidth? Imagine if everyone started downloading hidef movies all the time and the hissy fit the ISPs would throw for their piece of the pie. On-demand will overshadow bluray in about 10 years.
And on-demand won't be taking over Blu-ray any time soon, no matter how much you want it too. The quality isn't comparable.
compete with BR. The vast majority of this country doesn't even
have high-speed internet, which is still far to slow to download
an HD movie anyway. And where would you Xbox 360 Arcade
owners store said movie with no hard drive? Just because you
can download a 4 minute song on iTunes doesn't mean the
infrastructure is anywhere close to being able to offer HD
downloads. You're looking at least 10 - 20 years down the road.
Will the Xbox 360 be around then?
material impact on the Xbox 360 platform or our position in the
marketplace," the company said.
Translation:
"We weren't selling any add-on HD-DVD players anyway, so who
cares?"
http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=Wii&cons%5B%5D=PS3&cons%5B%5D=X360®%5B%5D=Total&start=39446&end=39495
...xbox is currently #3 globally behind PS3 and Wii, and it's dropping.
/P
Yes, they are #3. Apple isn't even that computer sales. Your point? Does this mean that by your very logic that Apple is a failure? Somehow I doubt you would say that, but it does show that your attempt to spin the facts can be done with anything.
The PS3 is on top not because of game selection (it has the poorest selection of all three), choice of gamers (again poorest of all three) but because it has that Blu-Ray player. Now take that player and add it to the Wii or 360 and see what happens.
I think you'll be singing a different tune at that point
Not only that, but Xbox has a MUCH larger game attachment for their system, something like 7 or 8 games per system sold, which is huge. And remember, Microsoft and Sony lose money on every system they sell since it's more expensive to manufacture them then what they retail for. So they only make their money back with software titles and licensing...and PS3 is the leagues behind Wii and Xbox in quality games. In fact, the only real way they can make money is from the Blu-Ray player. And I don't know one person yet out of my 50 or so tech friends that has bought into Blu-Ray or PS3. On-Demand/Interney HD movies > Blu-Ray.
- i agree with microsoft
- by phatfatd February 21, 2008 5:46 PM PST
- juat because hd dvd is out doesnt mean the end there cant be anymore xbox they can change to blue-ray just like the original xbox and the ps2 both used dvd format
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