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antfromtashkent on 17 July 2008
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rocketpig said:
antfromtashkent said:
BengaBenga said:
Really I'm getting tired of the assumptions that Microsoft buys everything.

Doesn't it occur to anyone that the 360 is the leading console+entertainment sytem in the most important market: the US? And that it therfore is a ver valuable partner?
Square even said it was THEIR decision to bring FF13 to 360 as well, not very strange considering 360's userbase in the US.
For Netflix this partnership opens a whole lot of opportunities.

 

 Lol well in this case the assumption that they bought it makes the most sence.....NetFlix was supporting Sony when they were doing bad...why would they switch now?

You're overlooking a few points:

1. Netflix may have supported Blu-ray but because MS didn't have a huge financial stake in HD-DVD in the first place, that's largely irrelevent.

2. Netflix is a business. A business that wants to make money.

3. The optical format pissing contest is over and it's time to move on.

4. Rumors about this have been swirling since HD-DVD was alive and going strong. That shows you how separate these two issues really are. Partnerships like this don't spring up overnight; you can bet the two companies have been talking for a long, long time about this.

 

1. It dosent matter it MS had stake in HD DVD... the 360 would have profited A LOT if HD DVD would have won....think about all the HD DVD drives that were abbandoned...

2. That just proves my point further.....

3. I only brought the formats up because HD DVD was a big hit to MS weather they want admit it or not.....(see 1.)

4. Yes they have been...but so were the roumors about the service coming to the SP3 but as u can see the service is exclusive to 360.... ipso facto....