Alby_da_Wolf on 22 July 2008
| SpartanFX said: I just have one question,,,, why on earth MS would make its console 200 dollar more expensive (and almost kill xbox brand)to help Toshiba??? HD dvd is a technology owned by Toshiba not MS.So all the losses absorbed by MS is just helping Toshiba and not MS. bluray one the other hand is owned by Sony,,so it would be justified for sony to suffer the beginning losses in hope of big royalties in future. |
I agree that including HD-DVD, one year before than BD in PS3, too, would have made XB360 unbelievably expensive, more than PS3.
But it's not true tha MS hadn't huge interest in HD-DVD: MS owned a vast part of the technology most used for interactivity in HD-DVD, while interactivity in BD uses java, so BD victory hits MS at least twice, no royalties from interactivity implementation, and a huge victory for java, that MS sees as a fearsome enemy.
