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yo_john117 on 29 June 2009
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Xoj said:
yo_john117 said:
perpride said:
yo_john117 said:
perpride said:
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perpride said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Microsoft backed HD-DVD because they thought HD-DVD would win the format war. Saying anything other than that is a freaking joke.

Yeh they spent millions of dollars just to make Blu Ray "limp".

No if that was the case they would have had an HD-DVD drive in every 360 made, They only supported it to hinder BR so they had more time to push their download based services.  

My friend your OP, as well as your response to me, is completely based on speculation. You are defending a dead format so it doesn't seem like MS screwed up. Companies fuck up all the time, backing HD DVD was a fuck up on MS' part. They thought it would succeed and take Blu Ray out. There is absolutley no way they would invest millions of dollars simply to hinder BR. They only started this whole digital distribution BS after Blu Ray destroyed their supported format. Even if an official from MS said what you are arguing (which they probably never will) I wouldn't believe it because it simply makes no logical sense.

Then tell me if they were supporting it so much why didn't they put the HD-DVD drive into at least one of their SKU's.  They weren't supporting it as much as you say.  MS is way smarter than you think they are...

They didn't put it in their SKU's because the console would cost too much. Plain and simple. Not everybody who buys a 360 is looking for a media center, so MS quite smartly decided not to add HD DVD built in with the console. Like you said, they are extremely smart. But this doesn't mean that they can't make mistakes. There is no way a company spends millions of dollars towards something they know is going to fail in the end.

Ok if they actually would have supported it they would have put it into at least one sku.  you can't say they were backing it up alot if they didn't even put it into one sku...and were are these sources for the millions that they spent it on it.  I don't think they put really too much money into HD-DVD at all.  And one more thing...to MS millions is chump change, if they were serious about it they would of spent billions like they did with the Xbox, or at least close to half a billion.

give up, they did back it up. it failed. period.