What disc drive do you think the next xbox will use?

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Millennium said:

kowenicki said:

Millennium said:
I'm actually going to guess DVD again. The reason for this is that I'm absolutely certain of one thing: whatever comes on most new PCs at the time of the console's release, that's what the 360's successor will use. I doubt that Blu-Ray will be standard on most new PCs by then (if it ever becomes the standard, and I have some doubts about that).

My last two laptops have had a blu-ray drive in them. 

OT.  There is no way they will use standard DVD in the next xbox.

Let me guess: you got heavily customized versions of the super-high-end models. I'm well aware that Blu-Ray can be built into high-end PCs as an option nowadays. I was talking about coming standard on most PCs, which Blu-Ray currently does not.

Or, to put it another way, look around you: what PC games come on Blu-Ray? None yet, to my knowledge, which is strong evidence that the PC game makers are not confident in Blu-Ray's market penetration. Until that changes, Microsoft will not put Blu-Ray into its consoles, because that would create a significant difference between XBox and PC gaming. The whole point of the XBox platform is to win converts from the console to the PC, and Microsoft believes this cannot be done unless the experiences are as similar as possible.

PC games are installed on HDD and not played from discs anyway so they don't worry about number of discs so they like to keep old formats as long as possible. PC games could easily be released 15 DVD's and no one would complain about it because discs are only used for installing. I know that there were a lot of PC games which came on 7-8 CD's. During time of floppy disks biggest games had 20 diskettes.  I doubt console gamers would like about that...