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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."
the corporate denials were being taken with a very big pinch of salt by everybody... sure, they weren't in talks with *Sony* to put a Bluray drive into it.
phew, at least that dilemma is sorted out. just one big one left...
the next 360 game should be Steve Ballmer on a snow board chasing Jerry Yang, trying to hit him with a chair, called Yamped!
to confirm it. All this article is is a claim that a Blu-Ray version of the 360 is being manufactured - which is what rumour sites have been suggesting since the death of HD-DVD. Until Microsoft confirms it, or we see one in the wild, this is still hearsay and speculation.
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
Why do people want Blu-ray in their 360? Just to watch Blu-ray videos?
Certainly no game manufacturer would do a Blu-ray game since it could not be guaranteed to be in every machine. So what is the point?
If you want to watch Blu-ray videos then you could use some other method, why hook it to a 360?
No developer could take advantage of it given all the 360s out there with DVD drives.
And furthermore, you're going to add another new layer of complexity onto an already flaky hardware?
It's like building a beautiful sculpture on top of a condemned building about to collapse.
Did you have the right to know Microsoft's future plans 6 months ago? Does Microsoft have the right to know yours?
Why should they pre-announce a new feature 9-12 months in advance? People might wait to buy an XBox 360 until then. And sales would go down for 360s and fewer games would be made, and Microsoft shareholders would lose, and current 360 owners would lose. I wonder why they might lie?
What would you do? Tell the truth and screw over the 360 owners and the MS shareholders?