| sieanr said: Microsoft is, and has always been, far more interested in pushing downloadable movies. The HD-DVD drive was added to the 360 as a measure to muck up the format war and try and prevent Bluray from taking off. It was only done to slow the growth of an HD disc and thus make things easier for a download service to take off. And I'm sure the profits from the add-on didn't hurt either. Never, sony and microsoft will never partner. Sony sells windows computers... |
| sieanr said: So you think that Microsoft has to partner with Sony to make a Bluray add-on? Last I checked manufacturers had to go to the Bluray forum for that sort of thing, which is an organization thats more than just Sony. Also keep in mind that there are plenty of other companies that make Bluray drives. And you seem to be thinking that a business is one coherent organization. Often what one division does is contradictory to another. I'm sure Sonys electronics division would love to have the 360 play BR, and MS would love to take that advantage away from the PS |
I agree, MS and Sony surely have complex strategies (that sometimes backfire on them).
MS doesn't need Sony's permission to use HD-DVD, but I'm quite sure they won't adopt high capacity media for games, but only for movies, on XBox360 for two reasons: first, the new games would be incompatible with old XBox360 unless equipped with BD add-on, second, as you said, sticking on a lower capacity format hampers or even nullifies PS3's capacity advantage in multiplatform titles. This same thing, that time not for media capacity, but for RAM size, in the past seriously damaged good PC games, like Morrowind and Thief III, that were forced to more or less drastic level fragmentation due to being multiplatform, PC and XBox 1, with the latter, originally thought to have 128MB RAM, but halved to 64 to reduce the eccessive costs, that forced developers to unnecessary compromises on the PC versions (the alternative would have been a more costly redesign of the different versions and levels). Morrowind suffered less, Thief III more, but luckily they remained very good games despite the annoying unnecessary loadings and portals, what I can't forgive XBox 1 for is being the cause of Deus Ex's sequel lobotomization (this one caused not only by HW limits, but also by the dumb attempt to extend its target to people less willing to think playing games, definitely an idiocy in a game born quite complex and liked also for this).
