'Future of home entertainment' is online, platform holder tells CVG

Microsoft has told CVG that it considers digital media - and not the Blu-Ray disc - the 'future of home entertainment'.

Calls for Microsoft to increase the capacity of its games media have grown since Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi said that Capcom had to cut content from the Xbox 360 version of the game due to size restrictions of the DVD format.

However, director of Xbox and Entertainment at Microsoft Stephen McGill told CVG this week:

"We have no plans to adopt [a] Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies."

McGill's comments come after the God Of War III developers at Sony Santa Monica praised the 50GB capacity of PS3's multi-layered Blu-Ray discs.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted earlier this week that there will be revised models of Xbox 360 coming 'in the future'.

250GB Xbox 360 'Super Elite' models are now available in bundles with games such as Final Fantasy XIII and Forza 3.

Look out for CVG's full interview with Microsoft's Stephen McGill tomorrow.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=238341

For some reason I thought they've already said this. Is this the first "official" time?

"In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies."

Interesting. Very interesting.

Xbox 360 Go... Confirmed?

Were you expecting them to say they needed it?

Wouldn't surprise me.  And personally if they want to make games available with higher file sizes for DD I'd be all over that.  A standard 6.8GB game on the disc is actually a much smaller file if run from a hard drive, so a full game download with no size restrictions would probably be within the 7-10gb range like on PC games.  Id be all for buying my games via digital download on 360.

Solid State gaming is the Future....

Blu-ray isn't the future.... because its the present.

Doesn't compute: blu-ray = PS3 = teh FUTURE B_E_L_I_E_V_E!!!!111ONEONE!!11!!ELEVEN!!!!!!11!!

What does streaming movies have to do with games?

Precisely what I was thinking. Are these quotes taken out of context?

OT: They don't really need Blu-Ray, but I'm sure developers would prefer it if they removed the masses of copy protection from their DVDs so they could squeeze a bit more stuff on. I mean is it really acceptable that the Wii and PS2 DVDs have more space available when the 360 is the HD console?