HappySqurriel on 15 October 2007
| MikeB said: @ HappySqurriel If Blu-Ray becomes a smashing success, Nintendo and Microsoft could easily choose HD-DVD as their format to discourage piracy... If Blu-Ray takes off like it seems it will, I think future game consoles will come supplied with a Blu-Ray drive as production costs will drop further (benefits are, more space & mandatory hard coating). I think it may even be technically possible to add HD DVD support to Blu-Ray players through firmware updates, there are already Blu-Ray players which offer basic HD DVD backwards compatibility (without support of extended features). |
The Gamecube's optical format was just Panasonic's abandoned alternative to DVD ... Although it could read standard DVDs the challenge of reading the discs prevented piracy for years
