EXPECT Blu-ray INSIDE the XBOX 360... just in time for the HOLIDAYS.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/xbox-360-blu-ray-console-by-september/

.... or is it?

[Post edited by xplaytendo on May 2, 2008]

It's NOT gonna happen dammit!!! If Sony let M$ put a Blu-Ray drive in the 360, that would be it for the PS3. It would have no benefit over the 360. Not to mention we'd see a drastic drop in load times on the 360 and we'd have to start installing our games. As a 360 owner I can safely speak for most other 360 owners when I say we don't want a Blu-Ray drive in our console.

If Sony allowed that the PS3 would be worth very little. Maybe Sony will give up on the PS3 and allow so as to build a Blu Ray momentum since it's been slow so far compared to dvd's start.

Sony does not own the BDA so it could happen. If XBOX 360 gets a BD drive than welcome M$ to the $450 to $500 console range, it would still be behind PS3 as far as game storage because M$ won't use BD for games and if they did they would be abandoning millions of current 360 owners. After all of this time still no internal WiFi? HUMM. PS3 would stilll be the better of the two as far as BD playback.

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...it would still be behind PS3 as far as game storage because M$ won't use BD for games and if they did they would be abandoning millions of current 360 owners.

Not necessarily true.. If the rumor holds water, and the rumor DOES STATE "internal" drive... then future games will be in BD format, not just for movies. YES... pricetag will hike up & no one will buy it. Unless of course, they keep it at $399 with $120gb... then it's on par with the PS3 (ps3 with only 40gb, but includes wifi).

If XBOX 360 goes BD... I would expect MGS4 to port, sometime in 2009. Why? Why not. Capcom did it for Devil May Cry 4...... ALL BIZNITCH.... nothin' personal.

[Post edited by xplaytendo on May 2, 2008]

IF M$ switches to Blu ray for games what happens to current 360 owners? I'll tell you, that means shelling out for a new system and that will be a f***ed up.

[Post edited by tony1569 on May 2, 2008]

BD is useless for games, atleast now. Even MGS4 could have been done on 1 or 2 DVD discs but Kojima was set on using uncompressed PCM. M$ offers you choice, a console with built in BD would be for those who want to watch Blu-ray movies but also have an Xbox 360. Xbox 360 Blue sounds good. Not eveyone needed to get the Elite console, and not everyone would need a BD equipted console. Now if M$ could have a dual format drive and have a more quiet and reliable system then I might actually consider using a game console for watching movies.

I would like to remind you of the following.

1. Xbox 360 physically cannot decode 40 mbit/s H.264 stream as required by Blu-Ray specification.
2. Microsoft has a corporate ban on Java. Dealing with Java is like dealing with terrorists at Microsoft.
3. Xbox 360's HD-DVD playback software contained 4.7 million lines of code. A Blu-Ray playback software is much longer and more complex. By comparison, a full game like Gears of War contained 400,000 lines of code. No one's writing a Blu-Ray playback software for Xbox 360.

BTW, SCEI lost $2 billion on PS3 from Fiscal 2007/2008, down $1 billion from Fiscal 2006/2007 loss of $3 billion.

Most of that loss is blamed on Blu-Ray inclusion.

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Sony does not own the BDA

Sony owns the patents to the core technologies of what is Blu-Ray today. If Sony wanted to they could quit licensing the UDO and DVR-Blu technologies and the BDA would be without Blu-Ray, so in essence, YES...Sony does in fact hold the controlling factors of Blu-Ray. The BDA is a group of people who manufacture and set standards. That's all. Sony owns Blu-Ray. You can dance around that fact all you want. But you always have to go back to the fact that Sony own the core technologies of Blu-Ray and without them the BDA can do nothing.