S.T.A.G.E. said:
Machiavellian said:
MS did not try to wipe out the Blu-Ray format. If they wanted to do that they would have included the HDD Dive within the 360 instead of as a add on. Do not forget that the reason the PS3 did not release the same time as the 360 was due to Blu-Ray not being ready. Sony had to wait a whole year before the format was done. HDD was avaliable when MS released the 360 and MS provided support for the device on their console because it allowed the 360 to display HD movies. It would have been silly for MS to wait another year to release the 360 just to inlcude a very expensive Blu-ray drive that would have upped the cost of the 360 and put it at a disadvantage against the PS3.
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Look it up, they wanted to help HD-DVD win the format war against Blu Ray Solely because it was Sony's. In the end the fate of HD-DVD didn't mean shit to MS and when you start to read the articles from back when they created the add on it was only just to fight off Sony just because. Its just how MS is.
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They didn't want either format to win, they wanted to prolong the war and prevent anybody becoming dominant until digital distribution was viable. To a certain extent they succeeded.
