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."

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Re:What purpose would it serve?

[archkittens]

with a 100% failure rate, they did that more to please the game companies than the consumers. doing something to protect the entire Xbox 360 content lineup and doing it for the people that actually use the product are different. its just like their extensions of the life of windows XP, they're not doing it for the consumer, they're doing it for the companies, and they shouldnt be doing it at all. the amount of resources being put into their existing crappy hardware and software systems is crippling their future, potentially half-decent, hardware and software systems.