Microsoft And Sony Discussing Blu-ray For Xbox 360

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Following the demise of the HD-DVD format, a senior Sony executive revealed today that they are currently in negotiations with Microsoft over the possibility of offering a Blu-ray Drive for Xbox 360.

Speaking with the Financial Times, Sony Electronics US president Stan Glasgow stated that they are holding discussions with both Microsoft and Apple.

As most gamers know, Microsoft who packed HD-DVD opted to sell it separately from the Xbox 360 in order to reduce the console's price. Blu-ray players currently retail for at least $400, about the same price of the most expensive Xbox 360 SKU.

Apple on the other hand preferred to focus on Digital Media Download and hasn't offered any High Definition format in any of its products yet.

Reflecting on the format's future, Glasgow expected Blu-ray Players' pricing to fall to $299 by the end of the year and perhaps even to $200 by the end of 2009.


link: http://www.megagames.com/news/html/h...rxbox360.shtml

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Discussion:
1-fianlly microsot admits that blue-ray is better that the shity HDD
2-Once again sony proved to microsot that playstation can overtake the XBOX at any time
3-Sar lezemla upgrade lal pcs at 2010 :P

[M|ch]

one and only word go buy a PS3 !

if blu ray is going to be on 360 it will be an external one , not an internal or else once again microsoft will screw their customers.

this microsoft strategy is becoming a joke

first a console without HDMI and WIFI then they introduced the elite with HDMI , now they want to introduce a BLu ray to their consoles.
what about the customers who already bought HD DVD for 360
or customers who bought a 360 without HDMI port

go buy a PS3 u will get all this in a one console.

[Kingroudy]

since HD-DVD lost, microsoft finds itself in a critical situation, and the best thing is to adopt the blue disc.
and about the console issue, the xbox 360 was never known where it will go:P
while the variants of the PS3 are not so different. (the only things that changed were the HD size and the backward compatibility)