Gates May Announce Xbox 360 DVR At CES

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday January 2, 2008 @08:31AM from the red-ring-of-content dept.

Via Kotaku, an article at the Seattle Times offers an interesting theory on what might be an important part of Bill Gates' keynote at CES next week. According to Times writer Brier Dudley, upgrades and licensing for the Xbox 360 could be a big new feather in Microsoft's cap: "I've speculated on my blog that Microsoft may be preparing to license the Xbox gaming platform to consumer-electronics companies. In particular, Microsoft could work with Toshiba to develop a digital video recorder with a hard-drive, high-definition HD-DVD drive and Xbox gaming capabilities. They're already allied against Sony and other backers of the Blu-ray DVD format, and Toshiba could help Xbox finally penetrate the Japanese market." Toshiba has repeatedly denied the possibility of a 360 unit with a built-in HD-DVD drive, it should be noted.

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Death of Gaming by Microlith · 2008-01-02 11:22 · Score: -1, Troll

Yay, now we can all support Microsoft in their march to take over console gaming, so they can destroy that just like they wrecked personal and business computing. It's so great to support a convicted monopolist in their drive to extend their monopoly from the desktop to the console, when by all rights they should have failed with their first venture. It's too bad Sony couldn't have been more competent with the PS3 release, I hate to think of what shit console gaming could turn into if the only avenue for non-casual gamers is the xbox (which is, of course, microsoft's goal.)

I guess by hiding the Microsoft name on the box, the giant green X pulled one over on everyone.