Will Nextbox have a Blu-Ray drive?

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walsufnir said:

ethomaz said:

pezus said:

I don't think it does.

Ah, someone mentioned movies. MS will have to support Blu-Ray if they want to position its console as a media center again I think. Either that or PS4 will again have the advantage in that area.

The Wii uses a Blu-ray driver but locked due the proprietaty format but the hardware is a default blu-ray driver.

The Nintendo just created this format to lock the blu-ray driver for movies, etc.

*any* proof for that?

It is not Blu-Ray per se. It is a format developed by Panasonic (who is also one of the founding members of the BD Association, and also good business partner of Nintendo) heavily based on Blu-Ray, with the same technology. If it's not called "Blu-Ray Disc" by name, is because of licensing fees, and maybe because Nintendo does not want to associate it's console with a technology that became mainstream thanks to a Playstation piece of hardware, and therefore, it is very  identified to the Playstation brand.

It was the same with the Wii's discs. They were DVD's, but they were never called by that name because of licensing fees. And the DVD was created by Sony too.

And to answer the original question: Microsoft will put a standard BD drive on their console, with movie playback and everything... Why? Because they can, and because they don't care about brands and etc. They are not as arrogant as Nintendo in that kind of things.