| tuoyo said: No way on earth would HD DVD have been a failed drive if it was built into 360. 360 sales would have been lower (probably much much much lower) than they are now but there would have been more HD DVD players than Blu Ray players. The studios that were Blu Ray exclusive that caused HD DVD to fail would have also released on HD DVD and some would have even been HD DVD exclusive. The only studios that would have been Blu Ray exclusive would have been those owned by Blu Ray. |
Ok. Lets say HD-DVD was on the 360, standard. As stated by many other users, MS would of either had to eat a huge loss on HD-DVD, ala Sony (which would be around $1.5-2bln more than it currently was/is), or lost a huge bit of sales.
So if the X360 would of seen much less sales, then how would HD-DVD come out on top? The PS3 would of sold like it did (horribly), but I bet it would of easily sold better than a HD-DVD X360 at $500. The BR-HD war would of lasted longer, but Sony would of won eventually, and Microsoft's loss would be far more substantial than what it has been. Again, what would MS of gained by incorporating a HD-DVD into the 360? More sales? Easily offset by the $2b in losses. More games? Again, would they help the X360 out as much as an extra billion in profits?
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
