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Microsoft's HD DVD Drive For Movies Only | |
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| Time: 00:24 EST/05:24 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Yesterday, Microsoft officially announced that it would offer an HD DVD drive as a peripheral to the Xbox 360 by the end of the year. But don't expect to see any Xbox 360 games ship on HD DVD any time soon. Chris Satchell, general manager at Microsoft's game developer group says the HD DVD drive is going to be for playing back HD DVD movies only. "We're not using [HD DVD] for game deveopment." | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 5/11/2006 12:57:55 PM |
| It would be a better move to redesign the 360 to allow HD DVD playback for moves and also incorporate motion sensitive controller technology similar to Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii. Add-on HD movie playback boxes to game units is a non-starter. |
| #2 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 5/11/2006 1:59:55 PM |
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"Add-on HD movie playback boxes to game units is a non-starter."
XBOX 360 is more than a "game unit". Its a digital hub for the home. Adding HD movie playback is cool. Cost will decide how sucessful this is. All I know is that I won't pay Sony a fortune for the PS3. |
| #3 By 665 (198.51.49.2) at 5/11/2006 8:00:04 PM |
| I think redesigning a 360 to replicate Sony and Nintentdo's innovations would be a bad idea. It would create two classes of 360 users, create tons of bad will and alienate early adopters. Forgoing a high def disk format was a big gamble. It won't matter much now, but might bite them in the butt in 3 years when developers need larger capacity, which Sony would have. Of course, Sony might not have an install base when they're asking $500-600 per console. |
| #4 By 12071 (203.185.215.144) at 5/11/2006 8:52:01 PM |
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Sony's innovations? What innovations? They've innovated absolutely nothing this time around unless you take their pricing scheme to be an innovation!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051100612.html |
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