zorg1000 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
zorg1000 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I think an even better questions is this:
If the Xbox 360 shipped with an internal HD-DVD a whole year before Blu-Ray hit would HD-DVD have won the format war?
I don't know the answer, but HD-DVD is the superior format so maybe if it came standard in Xbox 360 it would have given it the push it needed. |
That is a good question, perhaps it would have drug out the format war for a few years
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It might have. It might have also nuked the competition and be the standard today. MS doesn't care one way or the other. Sony needed Blu-Ray to win. If it hadn't the PS3 would have been a total disaster.
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Also would Iincluding hd-dvd to 360 from the beginning have brought the console price up? I know it wasnt as expensive as bluray but would 360 have cost more like 350-400/450-500 depending on sku?
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Maybe. It's also possible that MS could have gotten a good deal on HD-DVD drives if Toshiba and NEC wanted to help spread the format. HD-DVD drives don't use expensive Blue Lasers so it probably wouldn't have cost much more if anything. MS didn't want anything to do with the format war and instead hoped that discs would die in favor of digital distro.
