Would Microsoft have crushed Sony if the Xbox 360 had had HD DVD built in?

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S.T.A.G.E. on 16 August 2008

The 250 stores were in 2007.

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LOL MATURE on 16 August 2008

STAGE how many times do i have to tell you google is your friend.

Show me where HD-DVD was doing better than blu-ray in blockbuster.

FACT: Blu-ray did better for Warner and Blockbuster and target thats why they switched. Why keep a product that you have to buy just for it to sit on shelves and not even get reimbursed for it?

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Obliterator1700 on 16 August 2008

I dont think so.

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S.T.A.G.E. on 16 August 2008

LOL MATURE said:
STAGE how many times do i have to tell you google is your friend.

Show me where HD-DVD was doing better than blu-ray in blockbuster.

FACT: Blu-ray did better for Warner and Blockbuster and target thats why they switched. Why keep a product that you have to buy just for it to sit on shelves and not even get reimbursed for it?

Im talking about overall. Blockbuster is the least of my worries for proof. If you want proof look at HD-DVDs sales against Blu Ray before all of the politics started.

FACT: If the major movie studios say switch and Blu Ray has alot more of them than HD-DVD, then Blu Ray wins. Politics is politics.

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JiaJia on 16 August 2008

Let me sum up this thread given the following assuptions made in the OP

WOULD'VE ... COULD'VE ... SHOULD'VE?? ..... but DIDN'T ...

/thread =P haha

Nah probably not ... given the higher price tag it wouldnt have sold as many as it did ...

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SnakeEyez on 16 August 2008

Not trying to troll or anything, but wouldn't the 360 with HD-DVD still have the same RROD failure rate that plagued the console in the first year? I'm pretty sure that that would have put off way more ppl into buying a $600 console that has a chance of catching RROD. That would have resulted in much less sales (mainly cuz of price tag), would have given HD-DVD a bad name because of the 360's "false start" and I think it would have forced MS to have waited another year to release (I know, hypothetical situation, I just think that MS would have waited for parts to be cheaper before launching a 360 with an HD-DVD built in)

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TyePhoid_PAL on 16 August 2008

Seriously the Playstation struggled to sell with the price due to blu ray. They would have been in serious trouble and there definitely would of been no lead with the install base for long

Ynwa.

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Skeeuk on 16 August 2008

no sony would have beaten hd dvd anyways.

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Red4ADevil on 16 August 2008

No but it would have taken more exclusivse away due to more memory and the formate would have lasted so as long the used the format for the 360 also i could have blu-ray a run for its money.

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Commando on 16 August 2008

Onyxmeth said:

starcraft said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Perhaps, except HD movie sales were and still are far too low to convert studios to the cause. The majority of the movie studios supported Blu-ray during the format war, so the PS3 would have still had the advantage of having the format destined to win. If the 360 had an HD-DVD player, it could have been a disadvantage.

But Blu-Ray only became relevant after the PS3's launch. If there were already 3 or 4 million HD DVD players out there for a year or so, on top of MS and Toshiba forking out millions for exclusivity, do you really believe studios would have stuck with Blu-Ray?

I don't think a $600 price tag would have worked out too well for the 360. Sony luckily had a brand name they could run through the mud to catch on with Blu Ray. Microsoft didn't have that luxury coming off the Xbox.

yeah that's pretty much my feeling.

I like the thought you put into the thread though. Good job.

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