Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray

Starturtle writes "Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had admitted that Microsoft had been working on support for Blu-ray under Windows during this year's Mix08 conference. Rumors began to swirl and many began to expect Microsoft to announce a Blu-ray peripheral for the Xbox 360. However, Microsoft came out and denied all rumors, stating that they were not exploring any kind of Blu-ray add-on or in talks with Sony about integrating Blu-ray into the Xbox experience. After months of rumors and denials, the Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray disc drive is due to be manufactured soon and shipped in Q3 of 2008. Pegatron Technology, an OEM subsidiary of Asustek Computer, is reported to have received the winning order from Microsoft for a Blu-ray equipped Xbox 360."

Comments

Re:What purpose would it serve?

[kai.chan]

The XBox360 architecture was never designed to support anything other than DVDs. Even with the HD-DVD peripheral, XBox360 games could not have taken advantage of the extra space that seems to be in demand nowadays. But I agree, XBox360 is the worst reliable piece of consumer electronics in recent history. At first, I didn't believe at how a piece of electronics can have at least 30% failure rate; but I was made a believer when every one of my friends' 360 broke down.

Re:What's your point?

[rtb61]

Now that is what makes the whole issue about the lie so immature and childish. M$ knew they were stuck, everybody knew they were stuck, with HD gone and Bluray remaining they had no choice, everybody knew they had no choice.

M$ ranted on about HD and threw away millions of dollars on a dead end hardware product for their game consoles, threw away even more millions on trying to force HD as the only choice and put their reputation and illusion of technological dominance behind HD.

So like some spoiled brat that has been caught out, they stick with a childish lie that made absolutely no sense to hide their failure, and this for M$ has been a major failure. A real sign that M$ is becoming redundant in tech business.