Will nextbox use blueray?

[heruamon]

Squilliam said:

heruamon said:

Squilliam said:

If it represents a $10-15 saving on the drive and another $9.50 on Blu Ray playback its quite a bit of savings to consider relative to what 95% of games will require (im going off the $23 of royalties justification for CBHD vs DVD). Even limiting themselves to single layer 15GB discs would be good enough for at least 97% of games in the next generation. This will be especially important when next generation consoles probably won't cost more than $299 at launch.

Yeah, nobody in the west has done a hard srcub of CBHD for public consumption, since it launched, but evidently, ALOT of companies have looked into it, based on how many of them are supporting it in China.  I think M$ is going to look at the decision very hard to decide what format to use...but I DO think we will a physical media formt for the next console, because DD just isn't there yet, as Joeorc pointed out.

I think the Blu Ray ship has sailed and its not coming back to harbour unless Microsoft nails a really good deal for all computer manufacturers to switch over to CBHD.

Whilst I do agree that Microsoft will have an optical drive in their next console, I do believe they will offer a console SKU without an Optical drive and that console SKU will be DD only. They'll use a combination of kiosk and internet download to get games out to people as you only have to download the first 1-2GB before you can actually start playing the game.

Possibly...have  netbox console and the traditional model as well.  The thing is, even with a non-optical drive model, you can still have USB and SD card slots to support a physical medium support.  The only reason I think CBHD is viable is because you've basically got a cost effective sort of disc that meets the specs for storage capacity, and more importantly, one that doesn't require you to make drastic modifications to your current equiprment to support DVDs.