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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."
With 360 sales dead in every market other than the US and a lesser extent the UK, Microsoft desperately trying to come up with half-assed BluRay and Wiimote versions for the 360, someone with a brain up in Redmond desperately needs to take this 7 year long Xbox fiasco out behind the shed and put a mercy bullet between its eyes.
It's over two and a half years and the latest Microsoft conference call confirmed that they still are losing money on the crappy 360 hardware - with their little profit coming from bilking 360 owners out of 50 dollars every year to be allowed to play games online.
The 360 is selling just as poorly and to the same demographics as the first Xbox marketplace failure and they are up to some 7 billion dollars wasted on the mess of a project.
Microsoft needs to forget their retarded console market efforts and focus on saving the dying PC games market.
you know what's great about the PS3 that will never get ported to the 360? standard computer hardware. and quality, cant beat quality.
give it a blu ray player if you want, you'll still end up with a red ring.
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.