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Squilliam on 01 January 2010
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KBG29 said:
@Squill

Good points. I was thinking a BD Drive would be a little spendy, and I was worried about seperate versions for 360 and Natal, but I never thought of the hybrid discs. If they went that route it could help the dev support since they could make full use of the space on both the PS3 and Xbox Natal.

The DVD route I still see as a bad way to go in this scenario. I just don't think they have the room. Even opening up the extra space, things would be tight.

As for your OS ideas, I really like that direction. Whether or not they do Xbox Natal or not, that is something I deffinatly want to see in the future.

Thank you.

They are already working on Natal implementations for Windows. It should be stressed that there are 3 key implementations of Natal.

1. Xbox Natal game and media interface.

2. TV Natal which was a TV with the full NXE interface including games on demand. (I saw this at CES 2009 I believe, a video from Click a BBC show)

3. Windows Natal.

A Windows Natal interface works for console hardware, TV hardware and PC hardware.

TV natal would need extra performance to run TV specific programs like recording on demand etc so increased performance is needed if people want to say play Xbox games and record live TV at the same time. It would also be nice for a Blu Ray player to be implemented just as TVs started getting DVD players combined with them and it does seem to make sense overall. TV manufacturers have a problem in that once they sell you a TV they get no further revenue from you. Xbox Live content and subscriptions solve this problem.

As for the DVD/Blu Ray issue I feel that it can be a transition process. In the short term all discs can simply be extended Xbox 360 discs throughout 2009-2011 but for future releases they can start to use hybrid discs when it makes sense for storage space. I wouldn't most games to use this technology, just the games where it counts. In addition to this the hybrid Blu Ray/DVD discs can provide further forward compatibility to the next completely new Xbox architecture.

 

 



Tease.