No HD-DVD For 360 In The Near Future

While IGN originally reported that the 360 would see a HD-DVD update in 2006, they quickly released a response from Microsoft saying that as of the moment there are no plans for such an update. From the article: "Microsoft, in both America and Japan, has not announced anything regarding the possibility of a next generation DVD drive being placed in the Xbox 360 ... There are currently no plans to release an Xbox 360 equipped with a next generation DVD player."

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Re:This is a surprise HOW?

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(This is totally tongue-in-cheek, so don't take it seriously, I thought we might be amused by some mid-morning facetiousness. :-))

Look at it from the consumer's side. Why in hell would anyone want to buy a 360 *now* knowing that there would be a "better" version in the future?

That's what I said about the X360 when I saw the Revolution and PS3!

Now, look at it from Microsoft's side. They already have millions of 360s in circulation. They will kill their sales of existing systems if they announce an upgrade because people will wait.

Or at least a few hundred thousand. Actually, since no one can buy one anyway, they might as well take advantage of the downtime and upgrade them! Call it the XBOX 360.11 for Workgroups.

But, then what about the bleeding edge people who just HAD to have an 360 NOW?

Dude, that's so last week.

Besides, this gives Microsoft the excuse that they needed to rush to market the Xbox 720 -- comes with HD-DVD! w00t! And as proven by the last craze, there are clearly millions of suckers who will buy it as soon as it's released just because they can.

Get a Gamestation 256! It's slightly faster ... to the MAX!