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MS shoots down talk of HD-DVD equipped Xbox 360
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Is it just me, or is there something a bit wrong in that later bolded statement if you actually look at the first bolded statement
Usually when the companies say "currently we don't have plans blah blah blah..." it is anything but a "direct statement"
Martin Eddy
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I think the keyword is "currently". That means that in 12 months time they could do it and they wouldn't have lied.
But as Bill Gates had said
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This is from an interview sometime this summer, so it's not that current... but one can ask what exactly MS means with "current" and "plans"... do they mean they don't have anything yet 100% set to stone, but I do think they certainly are keeping that option very much a possibility, and that they indeed have some plans about a HD movie capable xbox360, even a BD xbox360 (BD technically isn't a "next gen DVD player" as HD-DVD is
)I think the keyword is no plans. Oh well, that's two words.
Ie: they're not working on it, and they're in fact not even planning on working on it. Since they're projecting to sell millions of the current boxes, the next-gen optical drive box was a dead idea from the start anyway since all such a drive could do is play movies and jack up the price. Games on next-gen optical discs would be out of the question since only a minority of boxes would actually have such drives.
Ie: they're not working on it, and they're in fact not even planning on working on it. Since they're projecting to sell millions of the current boxes, the next-gen optical drive box was a dead idea from the start anyway since all such a drive could do is play movies and jack up the price. Games on next-gen optical discs would be out of the question since only a minority of boxes would actually have such drives.
Don't know, to me that phrase just always has sounded the same as "no comment" only a bit more "~~ these are not the plans you are looking for, now move along...~~".
Guden Oden said:
No no, of course they have plans for it. Whether those plans have been shelved, are still in the works, or otherwise being discussed internally or with partners, we don't know. But putting stock in the words "no plans" just... that's too trusting. You have to know how to interpret these statements.
I think it would be a mistake for MS to launch an HD-DVD equiped 360 in the next year or two, but it would be even stupider of them to not have thought about that possibility. Better to assess and turn down than not be imaginative whatsoever.
They just said themselves they don't, and you have no evidence to the contrary.xbdestroya said:
What would be the point of such a change? In a couple years' time, MS is busy ramping up for x720 or whatever we're going to call it, sticking a next-gen optical drive in what'll be an old and mature product by then would just be a pointless distraction from their perspective. And doing it earlier would just 'confuse' the consumers, or worse, anger those who've already bought a box and feel cheated.
Guden Oden said:
Ok I think you and I are talking about two different things now actually.
I was saying that I believe that the idea of an HD-DVD drive included in the 360 has been discussed over at Microsoft. You're saying that Microsoft has no definitive timetable, aka plan, to implement any such design. I agree with you there. But I'm just saying that I'm sure somewhere within the XBox division the concept for when and how such a console variant would launch - if they chose to do so - exists somewhere.
By the way I agree with you that it's a bad idea, regardless. I've stated so numerous times in fact, and feel that Microsoft likely won't do it.
But just like the US has 'plans' in place to nuke the hell out of most of the planet if given the 'need,' MS must have 'plans' in place for the design of an HD-DVD equiped 360. I mean they were in talks with Toshiba afterall.
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therealskywolf
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Gholbine said:
Things aren't allways as clear as they seem to be. Don't be to quick to set up a winner....
Joe DeFuria
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Jeeze people....it's common sense.
1) It makes zero sense to produce a Xbox 360 with a higher capacity / HD format drive that is used for games. Any new drive would be for movies only.
2) MS will not force-fit any HD drive into the system, until the market has reasonably decided a winner in the format war.
3) If the format winner emerges sooner rather than later, I would expect a HD format DVD drive on a new SKU for XBox 360. If the war lingers on a bit, we may not see it at all until the next-gen console.
Now everyone please move along...
1) It makes zero sense to produce a Xbox 360 with a higher capacity / HD format drive that is used for games. Any new drive would be for movies only.
2) MS will not force-fit any HD drive into the system, until the market has reasonably decided a winner in the format war.
3) If the format winner emerges sooner rather than later, I would expect a HD format DVD drive on a new SKU for XBox 360. If the war lingers on a bit, we may not see it at all until the next-gen console.
Now everyone please move along...
Gholbine said:
DVD?
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