When it comes to the next generation console wars, it appears that the fiery anger and chest beating is greatest between Microsoft's XBOX 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Well, the heated war of words has been kicked up a notch as two top Xbox execs have leveled attacks against Sony and its inclusion of Blu-ray as standard equipment on the PS3. Neil Thompson and Chris Lewis, both top-ranking executives for the XBOX's European division, scorned Sony for including Blu-ray as standard equipment and have likened Sony's inclusion of a Blu-ray drive to Betamax. “Sony are now making people pay an extra few hundred pounds for a Blu-Ray DVD drive which we don't know is going to be the standard in the next-generation DVD formats. This is the company that brought out Betamax – we don't quite know where they're going to go with this,” said Thompson.
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