I was looking this up and it appears microsoft denied that they are getting a blu-ray drive
you didnt know? O_o
and your title is misleading.
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misleading title, but to be honest i dont think it will ever have one
I don't think they ever will put a BD in the 360. The HD DVD addon didn't do too many sales if I recall, and adding a BD to their console legitimizes the BD further. I think they would much rather skip right ahead to direct download type services and never even touch the BD technology.
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i was just wondering if it was POSSIBLE for them to get blu-ray since sony owns it
No it will help Sony out too much in royalties and that would not be good for MS.
| sweetoothj said: i was just wondering if it was POSSIBLE for them to get blu-ray since sony owns it |
Yes Sony publically invited Microsoft and Toshiba into the club, promising the Blu-Ray association will treat them like any other consumer electronics company. Microsoft once hinted towards choice, but it seems Blu-Ray will not be an option afterall to expand the 360 with.
I think the main reasons why this isn't going to happen is because it would further highlight the PS3's strenghts (including costs) of having an internal Blu-Ray drive for games as well as movies (top quality support) by default. Blu-Ray discs don't have to spin as much as DVDs to achieve good reading speed (due to higher density of data, 1 spin equals many times the amount of data being read) and they currently don't spin much for reading DVDs neither, good enough for PS2 compatibility and of course DVD playback, but not spinning fast enough for reading 360 DVDs, so that may be an obstackle for introducing a 360 with an internal Blu-Ray drive.
The problem is that the Blu-Ray forum is not going to give them a cheap ass drive like Toshiba did with its HD-DVD drive. Toshiba was subsidizing the cost of the drives simply to increase the size of its userbase, and Microsoft was more than happy to abide if it hurt Sony.
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