MikeB on 08 June 2007
@ Golvellius
MS do not pretend to give consumers the choice between Blu-ray and HD DVD.
Regarding Blu-Ray:
"Microsoft VP Peter Moore was quoted at CES saying that Xbox 360 has the flexibility to adapt to consumers’ needs, allowing Microsoft to add features as consumers demand them."
There is consumer demand for a Blu-Ray add-on, or better yet considering it's also Microsoft's technology being used a Blu-Ray drive offering full HD DVD backwards compatibility (currently planned HD DVD compatible Blu-Ray drives won't support additional HD DVD features other than movie playback, they use the same codecs).
. Sony forces consumers to upgrade to Blu-ray even if they just want to play games and don't care about movies.
IMO the Blu-Ray drive will be mainly beneficial to PS3 games. Nobody is pressuring people to buy Blu-Ray movies, that's an option (I'm very happy with) as the PS3 does feature movie playback support.
The official DVD successor is HD DVD, not Blu-ray.
Not really, most companies which were part of the DVD consortium are part of the Blu-Ray consortium.
