Will nextbox use blueray?

[Squilliam]

heruamon said:

Squilliam said:

If it represents a $10-15 saving on the drive and another $9.50 on Blu Ray playback its quite a bit of savings to consider relative to what 95% of games will require (im going off the $23 of royalties justification for CBHD vs DVD). Even limiting themselves to single layer 15GB discs would be good enough for at least 97% of games in the next generation. This will be especially important when next generation consoles probably won't cost more than $299 at launch.

Yeah, nobody in the west has done a hard srcub of CBHD for public consumption, since it launched, but evidently, ALOT of companies have looked into it, based on how many of them are supporting it in China.  I think M$ is going to look at the decision very hard to decide what format to use...but I DO think we will a physical media formt for the next console, because DD just isn't there yet, as Joeorc pointed out.

I think the Blu Ray ship has sailed and its not coming back to harbour unless Microsoft nails a really good deal for all computer manufacturers to switch over to CBHD.

Whilst I do agree that Microsoft will have an optical drive in their next console, I do believe they will offer a console SKU without an Optical drive and that console SKU will be DD only. They'll use a combination of kiosk and internet download to get games out to people as you only have to download the first 1-2GB before you can actually start playing the game.