endimion on 18 July 2009
| ultraslick said: Anything that is good or great would be better if it was free. Live could and should be free. I dont think anyone is arguing for the logic that a free live service would be financially viable for Microsoft. They will make money with Live for as long as it costs to use it- of course. @edimion; what are you arguing for? are you saying since Microsoft is beginning to offer the possibility of downloading full games that Blu-Ray is somehow less legitimate? You may have an argument if all sku's of the 360 were always sold with a hard drive. But I really doubt any developer would release a 7gb disc dvd9 (Microsoft standard format) and then require that another 30 gigs be downloaded and streamed through the hard drive, because that would be alienating a huge portion or the existing 360 userbase. For Microsofts next system, the DL game system makes more sense, therefor taking away the advantage that blu-ray has over dvd9. BUT the PS3 is already set up to do this. Sony is actually ahead of Microsoft in the DL arena so far, seeing how all skus have always shipped with a hard drive. Plus they already offer alot of full PS3 games on the PSN. Sony will not tip toe into the DL home console arena at a slow pace because of a fear of loosing blu-ray support. The two can and will exist at the same time imo. They already do! @OP; It will be nice to browse Netflix on my 360, it is slightly lame to have to use your PC as of now. I use the netflix all the time, and this feature will be great. |
no my argument is a disc in general are useless now a day...... and should be obsolete... which makes BR a technological inovation joke imo... just a BS argument to make look like a product better more bad ass.... best proof of that is in the PC world more and more laptops come without a disc drive.... 2009 every console should be rrunning with and only with a high capacity HDD..... and price or size is not the issue..... it's just peeps need a bone to chew on... and love shinny boxes and all.... so yeah BR add ons no thank you... offer me a 500Gb HD at the same price....
