Would Microsoft have crushed Sony if the Xbox 360 had had HD DVD built in?

[MontanaHatchet]

starcraft said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Perhaps, except HD movie sales were and still are far too low to convert studios to the cause. The majority of the movie studios supported Blu-ray during the format war, so the PS3 would have still had the advantage of having the format destined to win. If the 360 had an HD-DVD player, it could have been a disadvantage.

But Blu-Ray only became relevant after the PS3's launch.  If there were already 3 or 4 million HD DVD players out there for a year or so, on top of MS and Toshiba forking out millions for exclusivity, do you really believe studios would have stuck with Blu-Ray?

 

Why wouldn't they have? If the PS3 came out and started selling millions, which it did, than Blu-ray would start to grow as well. Studios stuck with the format because they wanted the format war to cease as quickly as possible. And the 360 would have cost more and probably have been delayed for a couple months at least to work the HD-DVD drive into the console. Microsoft would have lost millions more than they did, and the userbase would have been smaller.