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Microsoft Responds to Blu-Ray Comments
Next Generation reports that Microsoft's willingness to support Blu-Ray on the 360 was highly overrated. From the article: "The question of whether Xbox 360 has the flexibility to adapt to consumers' needs is a different issue entirely. Xbox 360 is a future-proofed system - one that allows us to add features as consumers demand them - as evidenced by our offering of the HD-DVD drive as an accessory. Current reports indicating that we have a back-up plan, which includes Blu-Ray support are incorrect. At this point, we're fully committed to HD-DVD and have absolutely no plans to support other optical formats." IE: They have the option of adding Blu-Ray if it turns out HD-DVD is a flop. We've reported on this claim earlier.
"We have no plans" is corporate weasel wording for, "We're probably going to do that, but we don't want to announce it now and lose face or have to argue with someone about it."
"We have absolutely no plans" means, "Heck yeah, we're gonna do that as soon as you forget that we promised not to."
After all, not having a plan to do something is very far from having a plan to not do something. The proper journalistic response to such an announcement is, "So, you don't have any plans yet. When do you expect to have some? Or are you just going to wing it?"