| cdude1034 said: Sony and Microsoft will never adopt the format owned by their competitor. Why give your opponent a share of your profits? Makes no sense. If it comes to pass that blu-ray wins the format race eventually (see: fastest turtle in the race), then Microsoft will probably develop their own medium. Personally, I believe that the proliferation of downloaded games will take over so medium won't really matter, and hard drive space will. |
First off, Microsoft doesnt own HD-DVD, so if HD-DVD did win and became the medium, then Sony could actually use HD-DVD in their next console. They used DVD's dont they? They were a toshiba product too, just like HD-DVD.
Now with Microsoft, they just go where the crowds go really. Right now, they are supporting HD-DVD, but not very much tbh. They support it because theyd rather it won than Bluray, because they then have an upper hand over Sony; however, they really support downloads. Theyre a software company at heart, nt a hardware company, so downloads plays right into their hands with Vista etc. If the next consoles dont concentrate on downloads (which i dont think they will, they will still use physical media), then im sure Microsoft will use whatever wins this generation, whether it be HD-DVD or Bluray, because in all honesty they dont want either to win, but they will go where the money is.
