CVG has an interview with Microsoft Xbox and Entertainment's Stephen McGill, who has made it clear that digital media is the future, and not Blu-ray discs.
Says McGill: "We have no plans to adopt [a] Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies."
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM: AS I said befor it would be easy t put a BR player into new units and allow publishers to make HD/SD game releases,compilations and such. They can do this and make live free while making a better subscription level for 8$ a month.
That's something I would like to see but why make Live free/$8 a month when there's millions of users already paying the $60 a year? Of course I wouldn't mind it being only free/$8. A BR inside now that would be best, the only reason I bought a PS3 was to play BR movies. I only have three games for it, but about 65 movies. If they wanna keep customers happy and bring in new customers I say it's time to put a BR player in the 360. I would definitely buy another one then, I already have two and I paid for one when it first came out and got another after the arcade dropped to around $300. And if they do that they might as well but wi-fi in it.
Well mainly because you'd get more people buying crap on live if you did not steal 5$ a month for them just to MP.
Originally posted by alexmojo2: It wouldn't really matter either way if the Xbox 360 got an external blu-ray. The games still wouldn't be able to be on it, because not everyone would have one. It would only be used for movies. Unless they want to sell 2 versions of the game "blu-ray" and "DVD", then this discussion is rather worthless. The next generation of the Xbox may have blu-ray if Sony gives them the right.
Does anybody remember the Nintendo 64 expansion slot you had to upgrade with to play the more powerful games?
Oh ya lol I remember! Pain in the ass! I mean easy to install, but what a rip off. I had the PS1 but I remember one of my friends that had the N64. I later bought that N64 from him with 15 games for like $50 bucks lol I still go it actually, along with all the older consoles!
Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Originally posted by ffocus06:
Originally posted by ZippyDSM: AS I said befor it would be easy t put a BR player into new units and allow publishers to make HD/SD game releases,compilations and such. They can do this and make live free while making a better subscription level for 8$ a month.
That's something I would like to see but why make Live free/$8 a month when there's millions of users already paying the $60 a year? Of course I wouldn't mind it being only free/$8. A BR inside now that would be best, the only reason I bought a PS3 was to play BR movies. I only have three games for it, but about 65 movies. If they wanna keep customers happy and bring in new customers I say it's time to put a BR player in the 360. I would definitely buy another one then, I already have two and I paid for one when it first came out and got another after the arcade dropped to around $300. And if they do that they might as well but wi-fi in it.
Well mainly because you'd get more people buying crap on live if you did not steal 5$ a month for them just to MP.
forget everything !!
USB will be the future! lol
All the game developers would sell their games inside new packed usb(s).Everytime you would want a game,a new usb. (which will be locked/protected).
REASON : Nowadays,when the games are under development,the developers and the engineers/animators face great problems in scaling down the details or sizes of the games.. so that they can easily fit into their respective target media.. e.g Blu-ray OR HD-DVD.
if the game would be produced at 13 GB,hah ! no need of burning a blu-ray disc! they'll prolly ship it with a 16 gb usb drive.
At that time(future), memory manufacturers will decrease their prices as because of increasing demand by companies ....! =)
And there goes my first ever post over this website ;) very helpful website though =)
guys!! feedback! :P
Originally posted by Dreamstate83: Does anybody remember the Nintendo 64 expansion slot you had to upgrade with to play the more powerful games?
There is a difference between upgrading an optical drive and a expansion card. The 64 upgrade was easy and required almost no tools. They also included the expansion card with Donkey Kong 64, the first game that required it. Majora's Mask also required it but that was it.
Perfect Dark to advantage of it but didn't require it to play.
They could include an external Blu-Ray add-on, similar to the HD DVD add-on, with a game but it would have to be <$110 to be successful, in my opinion.
Since Microsoft didn't give the 360 S (slim) a Blu-Ray drive I don't see an add-on coming in the future.
Originally posted by KillerBug: Yup, the 360 does not NEED bluray support, it does not even NEED to exist. Video games and movies are not NEEDed to begin with. Seems like they should at least let you use a USB bluray drive, but you don't NEED it, so screw you!
your a edited for content idiot blu-ray is gorgeous and the ps3 slim is super sexy the 360 is only good for one thing and that's it's beautiful exclusives but the ps3 is a multi media power house and the world thanks sony for making it
