Blu-ray 360 to be announced tomorrow?

Written By ApplesauceNinja 164 days ago
News Category: Console News
Relevant Consoles: : Xbox 360

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An insider at Microsoft's former HD DVD department let it slip to tech blog Crunchgear that the console will "get Blu Ray before Christmas."

The official Detpress release is to go out tomorrow at 9 a.m. PDT. Though the particulars are sketchy at the moment, word is that supposedly the new model will sell for less than the cost of an Elite ($449.00).

Tags : Blu-ray : Crunchgear : microsoft : Xbox 360

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By: Dragonfly On: 04:00 Jun 9th, 2008 Offline	Nothing but rumours that will never materialise into reality. A Blu-ray player on the 360 would be a free license to print money for Sony, as it's Sony's technology, and Microsoft aren't that stupid.
By: ApplesauceNinja On: 05:18 Jun 9th, 2008 Offline	I don't know, Michael. My gut feeling is that this rumor is likely true. We'll find out tomorrow morning, eh?
By: SwitchxA On: 06:11 Jun 9th, 2008 Offline	Sure it may help Sony more, but Microsoft can either get with the program of gamble on their online media distribution system which has yet to really over take retail sales. It could go either way. If Microsoft wants to keep boasting it is a next gen HD device then it needs to adopt Blu-Ray.
By: Shad On: 10:12 Jun 9th, 2008 Offline	Are they going to be releasing new harddrives so that you can install all your blu ray games on it? The medium is not that impressive as far as games are concerned.
By: SwitchxA On: 11:01 Jun 9th, 2008 Offline	Shad;50793 Are they going to be releasing new harddrives so that you can install all your blu ray games on it? The medium is not that impressive as far as games are concerned. Larger space is never a bad thing. Sure helps games like MGS4 and Disgaea 3.
By: Dragonfly On: 04:36 Jun 10th, 2008 Offline	SwitchxA;50798 Larger space is never a bad thing. Sure helps games like MGS4 and Disgaea 3. Disgaea 1 and 2 fitted on a CD-ROM. Not a DVD, a CD-ROM. You wouldn't even *need* a Blu-ray for Disgaea 3. The point Shad was making was about the the slow read speed of the format. That's the whole reason for all these mandatory installs, and is definately the biggest flaw in the Blu-ray format, whatever about its extra capacity. BTW, I hate to say I told you so, but... http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/09/bach-denies-blu-ray-xbox-360-announcement-today/
By: SwitchxA On: 01:16 Jun 10th, 2008 Offline	Dragonfly;50806 Disgaea 1 and 2 fitted on a CD-ROM. Not a DVD, a CD-ROM. You wouldn't even *need* a Blu-ray for Disgaea 3. The point Shad was making was about the the slow read speed of the format. That's the whole reason for all these mandatory installs, and is definately the biggest flaw in the Blu-ray format, whatever about its extra capacity. BTW, I hate to say I told you so, but... http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/09/bach-denies-blu-ray-xbox-360-announcement-today/ For bigger games though it's nice to just have one disc instead of multiple's like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon too. I don't get why people are making a point about installs. You have to do it with PC games so whats the big deal? The faster the better. Like I said, it could happen.
By: Evren On: 04:53 Jun 10th, 2008 Offline	MS has deep pockets. DEEP pockets. It could be entirely psosible. If it happens, I wont be surprised. *shrugs* Not that I care really. Also, Installs on a Console? I may as well play on a PC.
By: Shad On: 05:49 Jun 10th, 2008 Offline	Nothing against the PS3 or the BD, but a lot of the data on MGS4 (and other large titles) is duplicated to help with seek times and the rest is uncompressed audio. Kojima could easily have fit it onto a DVD9. Microsoft would also have to shoot themselves in the foot because they would have to either publish ALL of their games on Bluray and alienate their DVD customers, or publish on both formats which is prohibitivley expensive. Grand Theft Auto 4 installed 8 gigabytes onto my friend's PS3's harddrive. The size of that game cannot be more than 8.7 gigs otherwise it would not have fit on the DVD for the Xbox version (which still has shorter loading times). Bluray is good for the ammount of stuff you can store on a disk, but doing anything with that data is unwieldy at the moment. Blu ray will be a good technology once 4x 8x and 16x drives become commonplace. If they ever make a PS3 slimline it will have the newest drive in it, and that will be when Bluray starts making it's presence felt as far as gaming medium is concerned.

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