As the format war crawls to an ultimatum, MS, the biggest HD-DVD supporter outside of Toshiba, released a statement on how the feel HD-DVD is doing as well as their future plans. It does not reveal much, but it seems that they are gearing up for a huge Plan B. Here is said statement:
We do not believe the recent reports about HD DVD will have any material impact on the Xbox 360 platform or our position in the marketplace. As we’ve long stated, we believe it is games that sell consoles and Xbox 360 continues to have the largest next-gen games library with the most exclusives and best selling games in the industry. We will wait until we hear from Toshiba before announcing any specific plans around the Xbox 360 HD DVD player. HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room along with playback of the DVD movies they already own.
I would not mind seeing a Blu-ray attachment, but for the price of close to $200 dollars, you are almost better off buying a PS3. I am waiting for the fire sale of HD-DVD’s to start. Once they dump it, those movies will see a huge drop.
[via Gamerscoreblog]
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Gaming/Console/J7L7H2R4
Yeah that’s still rumor, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft did drop a BluRay drive fairly soon. But Scuba is right, why not just buy a PS3 at that point
Man, if Microsoft would have had an HD-DVD player built into every Xbox360, blu-ray wouldn’t have had any chance.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/official-hd-dvd-dead-and-buried-format-war-is-over/
Format war is over. It didn’t last nearly as long as i expected.
wow, everything happened pretty fast didn’t it?