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Interview with Xbox's European Manager: "Blu Ray Reminds us of Betamax" | |
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| Time: 13:41 EST/18:41 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: How many Xbox 360s have been sold so far world-wide? Chris Lewis: By the end of June we will have sold between 4.5 and 5.5 million units worldwide. We were in 19 countries when we launched, we're already in 30. We'll have 80 high-definition games on the market, including games downloaded from our online marketplace "Arcade," by the end of June. It's great that Europe was right up there with the United States and Japan for launch. Europe is the most critical geography to our worldwide success.SPIEGEL ONLINE: The market you're probably least happy about is Japan. In the first weeks of 2006 more PS2s and Gamecubes were being sold there than Xbox 360s. Lewis: It's a tough marketplace for us. It's critical for us to get out there with the right games. We're making steady progress, but it's tough. We are making sure that we have the right content, the right people, the right marketing in Japan. | ||
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| #1 By 3 (62.253.128.12) at 4/19/2006 1:44:24 PM |
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yeah it reminds us of betamax too, where we were disappointed that the best, higher quality format lost This post was edited by Byron_Hinson[AW] on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 13:44. |
| #2 By 37 (24.183.100.179) at 4/19/2006 4:49:40 PM |
| I am not seeing any better quality in the beta-ray over HD-DVD. I am seeing 2 things that are better in general however....scratch protection and storage. Storage isn't important to the consumer all that match in this scenario as the storage will primarily be used for regional free content, allowing more than one version (language, region cuts) of a movie or game on one DVD. So essentially, we see that scratch proof is the better factor here. I don't have any DVD's that are scratched, so again, that is not a factor. What IS a factor is the pricing of the actual units...HDDVD is half the price. |
| #3 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 4/19/2006 9:00:23 PM |
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hd-dvd? bluray? irrelevent to a growing majority of people. I mean, I havent rented or bought a DVD in YEARS.
b i t t o r e n t This post was edited by mooresa56 on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 21:01. |
| #4 By 3 (62.253.128.12) at 4/20/2006 1:14:51 AM |
| #2 - I don't disagree, the units are too expensive for Blu Ray which is a shame as the media is definatly better and pricing it out of peoples range the wrong thing to do this early. But then again if reports are correct, the new HD-DVD players are showing a large range of problems. |
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