| NJ5 said: Regarding the Blu-Ray drive it's possible, but it wouldn't be used for games. |
I hope it does get used for games. There could be two versions of some games, one supplied on scratch resistant Blu-Ray disc and the other version on mulitple DVDs for big linear games. For those developers who think DVD just wouldn't cut it for their game, like for an open world game such as GTA V (when you drive from one location and back it's no joy swapping discs twice or more times) they could only release a Blu-Ray version, again pushing many current owners to upgrade. The few XBox Elite owners I know, owned another 360 version before this, they upgraded to the Elite in the hope it was free of hardware issues and some additional features like a HDMI port. At least someone I know has such a big 360 games library he would certainly buy it if just proven to be more far more sturdy.
For the PS3 this would IMO be good news, more games developers will to take into account Blu-Ray benefits like sustained predictable reading speeds throughout discs. This would result in much better and optimised off disc streaming games. A default harddrive for at least Blu-Ray equipped 360s (storage is required for the latest specs) would also be very beneficial. More demanding games could always assume a harddrive being present.
