DVD is increasingly showing a strain in providing HD content.

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arsenicazure said:
^^ yea MS was a douche when they didnt use HD-DVD. It ran on a modified red laser so the costs wouldnt have been that huge- I guess they were so paranoid about the ps3 that they had to launch the 360 ASAP.

Some1 mentioned that 3-4 discs costs the devs a lot more.. yes and no.. the actual costs of the discs themselves are pretty moot- discs cost a few cents to produce. Main cost rise would be shipping/handling/packaging.

Ms charges developers per additional disk they have to use and we arent talking "a few cents". i think (not sure will have to look it up) Ms charges a few dollars per disk developers need. i readan article about it, ill see if i can find it.

edit: as my memory refreshes some more it actually might be a few cents Ms charges developers per disk but that still adds up when you times it with the x amount of disks developers need to distribute to the masses