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NJ5 on 05 August 2008
goddog said:
@NJ5 if they use hddvd, they will be the only one, disks would cost more, since there is no volume to production, not a lot of factories set up for it.

Id say blue ray, or a combo if downlaod or multi dvds that you install to play. no more streaming from the disk

i think it is kinda funny that after 3 gens its becoming possible to go back to solid state carts and maybe just as cheap as disks...

Manufacturing costs could be higher, but royalties would be lower...

 



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Golvellius on 05 August 2008

If the next Xbox launches somewhere in 2011 or 2012, it could make sense to use 32 GB SDHC cards instead of Blu-ray, provided that this technology is cheap enough by then.



joshin69 on 05 August 2008

by that time nothing will be cheaper than BD, just as nothing is cheaper than DVD at the mo. (comparative size)



 

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XGamer0611 on 05 August 2008

MS will probably license the HD-DVD standard from Toshiba. Since the format is dead MS would pay way less then they would pay Sony for Blu-Ray. Just because Toshiba lost the format war for movies doesn't mean they can't license the technology for game use.



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Hawk on 05 August 2008
NJ5 said:
goddog said:
@NJ5 if they use hddvd, they will be the only one, disks would cost more, since there is no volume to production, not a lot of factories set up for it.

Id say blue ray, or a combo if downlaod or multi dvds that you install to play. no more streaming from the disk

i think it is kinda funny that after 3 gens its becoming possible to go back to solid state carts and maybe just as cheap as disks...

Manufacturing costs could be higher, but royalties would be lower...

 

Granted, I don't think they will use HD DVD, but they absolutely could if they wanted too. I'm not sure why them being the only one using the format would be the reason they'd decide not to. As has been pointed out, Gamecube and Wii both use proprietary format. Nobody else but them use their disks.

 



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Dgc1808 on 05 August 2008

Probably make their own storage medium....
Anyone heard about these:

GameCube used their own special 1.8GB disk
PSP used it's own special UMD [forgot the space]
Wii is using a disk that's about the same size as a DVD but slightly different some how and it's called the Wii optical Disc.



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Golvellius on 05 August 2008
joshin69 said:
by that time nothing will be cheaper than BD, just as nothing is cheaper than DVD at the mo. (comparative size)

True.

Thinking about it again, much will probably depend on Microsoft's decision whether to support Blu-ray movie playback or not. If Blu-ray becomes as popular as DVD is nowadays, they need to include capabilities for BR movie playback anyway in order to meet their own claim of providing a full-fledged media center. In this case it would be stupid to use anything other than BR for their games.

So it will be interesting to see how popular the BR standard becomes in comparison to VoD. I think even in 2012 it will be too early to fully rely on downloadable content, especially when targeting the mass market. So if BR fails to gain enough popularity, MS can still decide to use BR nonetheless, or use HD DVD or even flash-based media, or something else.



Tbone on 05 August 2008

Who knows maybe they will use blu-ray too.



 

Shadowblind on 05 August 2008

Hopefully nothing. I could't care less about disk swap.



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flames_of on 05 August 2008

Blu-Ray will seem a good choice...

As in a couple years costs will be lowered, HD tvs will probaly be more common and Blu-Ray may start outselling DVD.



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