Microsoft: 2010 Best Year For 360, No Need For Blu-Ray

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justinian said:

revovichfan12 said:
what is microsoft thinking. Everyone needs bluray to experience Avatar at home ;)...

But seriously. I bet the one thing that sony will have that microsoft won't have this coming holiday season is 3D bluray and there may be some games coming out that will capitalize on that. Sony has already said every ps3 will be 3d compatible.

Bluray can also fit more information on it which means they are cheaper to make. 1 bluray is cheaper than two dvds (mass effect 2 :P)

Good point. From this prospective size does matter. The more DVDs the bigger the production costs so that eats into profits.

I don't know exactly how the whole thing works but say, for example that FFXIII comes out on four DVDs.

My guess is that equates to 4x production costs for x360's FFXIII being sold at the same price as the PS3 version.

Is the game then sold at a higher price on the x360 to recuperate costs?

Doesn't really matter to MS, I suppose. They can afford losses.

But sure as hell matters to pubishers packaging the game.

Then again maybe all this was covered with SquareE when the deal was struck with MS.

With Forza (I think), FFXIII and ME2 that's three multi discs games on x360 in a short time - that I know of.

If the rate of multi disc games increase dramatically then it may be a problem but if MS don't seem to care about this neither should I.

Have you ever bought blank DVD? I, the stupid consumer at the very end of the profit-chain, can get a blank DVD for $0.19. Now imagine Mr. Microsoft going to a DVD manufacturer saying: "Hello, we need 8 million blank DVDs"... So MS probably pays less than $0.10 for a DVD, which is sold at retail for $59.99.

The costs for DVDs are soooo tiny. It won't matter for anyone.