Impact on the Xbox 360 of Sony Blu ray winning
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Mark
Posted on: February 20, 2008 | 21 Comments
Ok now this is interesting because not only do we know that Toshiba have finally chucked in the HD-DVD towel many seem to think that it will not have a massive impact on the Xbox 360 platform seeing as Microsoft have an interest in HD-DVD, but surely there has to be an impact seeing that the Sony Blu-ray has a winning formula.
Obviously we will all have to wait and see when the company hears from Toshiba for more information on any future plans around the Xbox 360 HD. But what will the plans include? Will it be Microsoft Points redeemable voucher for any of you that fall into the HD-DVD pit, well this all remains up in the air at the moment?
On a personal note it has to be said that Microsoft may have to go run and hide in the corner of a room and swallow their pride and come up with an Xbox 360 blu-ray player or something.
The other thing is that many people have Xbox 360 consoles that feel they may want to buy an add-on, but you have to think about it for a second like for example favoring the Sony PS3. Many of you now which we can understand may be feeling a little down in the dumps now that you have purchased an Xbox, but then we do understand that the PS3 is a little pricey for many of you still.
So what do you think the impact has on the Xbox 360 of Sony Blu ray winning?
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The Xbox 360 is first and foremost: A gaming console.
When connected to the same network as a Vista Premium PC, it is a media center extender (this was part of the reason I bought 3 of them).
As a media center extender, it is capable of delevering high definition multimedia content through a slick user interface. All this while still connected to the gaming community, ie. access to friends list, etc.
The PS3 is still light years away from this.
Forget optical discs, this is the 21st century for Gods sake!
If you are really Bill Gates, We must not forget that YOU designed the 360. You also knew that HD-DVD was coming. We all found out about more than 5 years ago. You could have put a Built in HD-DVD drive, but you wanted your little console to have DVD-DL. Sony waited a another year for the PS3, just so they could perfect the Blu-ray drive. AND IT WORKED! Plus, when Sony comes out with PlayTV, you are going to be in soooo much trouble in sales as far as your medaia claims for the 360. And dont forget Playstation Home. That’s like coming in a month or two. A Free download, free online, free free free. With the 360, buy, buy buy.
with the hd-dvd now out, will the xbox 360 elites drop in price?
if it really is bill gates who made the comment above,maybe he’ll give us ps3 fans a free 360 so we dont buy a ps3
“Many of you now which we can understand may be feeling a little down in the dumps now that you have purchased an Xbox, but then we do understand that the PS3 is a little pricey for many of you still.”
Uhmm..the xbox 360 and PS3 are the same price…hello?!
PS3 = 399
Xbox Elite = 450
And the PS3 has a Bluray drive! LOL. hello!
If Microsoft adds a Bluray drive to the XBOX 360 or an add on Bluray, they’ll have to pay Sony for royalties…and if they don’t, people will want to play Blurays and buy a PS3 as a player anyway…LOL…I find that…funny. MS is hosed by not being forward thinkers. But seriously, look at the rest of their products…is the XBOX any different?
Actually Brian, Blueray uses the VC-1 Codec for video encoding, partially developed by Microsoft. So for every PS3 sold Sony pay royalties to MS.
Optical drives will be dead and buried within 5 years anyway as solid state memory advances (32gB SD card soon,64gB Oct.).
Optical drives-use 300-400 components, 30-40 moving components (gears,rubber bands(!)etc.),easily damaged discs.
And as for games with no loading times…
ROM cartridge anyone…..?
Shay. Falcon chipset Elite still has 10% failure rate. Compare that to 1% of Wii and PS3 and you’d have to be a thumbsucking moron to even contemplate taking a 10 to 1 chance on a soon to be obselete system which is about to lose support faster than Hillary Clinton. Get your head out of your deriere and swallow some of that pride, 360 has a few standout titles and may get a few more but its now coming third in a three horse race and unfortunately you bet your shirt on it.
Shay, your sales numbers are far away from truth. As a ordinary xboy, you don’t see the facts.
Real numbers are: Wii: 21.5 Mln
xbox360: 17 Mln
PS3: 10.2 Mln
SONY is lining up all its ducks in a row. BLURAY has won the format war, its gonna be an explosive year for ps3 game releases, HOME is coming any day now along with in game XMB, free ONLINE PLAY, full WEB BROWSER, p.c. streaming to ps3, NETFLIX available to ps3 as well. HARD DRIVE STANDARD EQUIPMENT, no BATTERIES to buy. ITS A PERFECT STORM. there are a handful of games that i would like from the 360 but that is no reason to buy a RROD MACHINE. its gonna be a fun year for ps3 users, lol.