Microsoft: We'll Support Blu Ray

Deathman48 | March 07, 2008 | Other | PC XBOX 360

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said yesterday that the company will support Blu Ray, though they are denying that they're in talks with Sony about their Blu Ray drives. More on that topic will be sure to follow in the coming weeks. Really Microsoft were left with no choice but to support Blu Ray since it's now the de facto standard. Though what they'll do about Blu Ray and the 360 is a question that probably won't be answered for some time.

We've already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like, and I think the world moves on. Toshiba has moved on. We've moved on, and we'll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense.

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Guugley | March 07, 2008

Like the article itself says, they don't have much choice but to support it, HD DVD has pretty much lost the 'war' - so to speak. Blu Ray in 360's would be interesting.
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Incidnia | March 07, 2008

How would we get blu ray into 360's without alienating the whole market?
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  jmac353 | March 07, 2008
  
  In what way would you alienate anyone?
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    Incidnia | March 07, 2008
    
    Well there would be 18 million people with DVD playing 360's and then from then on Blu-Ray playing 360's. It's sort of shitting on the little guy wouldn't you say?
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      jmac353 | March 07, 2008
      
      No because Blu-Ray playing 360's would be more expensive and still play DVDs as well. How is it shitting on the little guy when more money is needed? It's not like the 360 will cost the same as what the "little guy" paid for his vanilla DVD playing 360.
      
      Wait, are you thinking they'd put games on Blu-Ray, because they never would.
      
      Anyways, they haven't addressed whether they would make a Blu-Ray integrated 360 or if it would just be an add-on.
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      Slumpy monkey | March 07, 2008
      
      No its not because they would still make games for DVD. they wont make games for blue-ray
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  Deathman48 | March 07, 2008
  
  That's pretty much the $64'000 right now, nobody knows how they'd do it, if they're planning to do it or what. We'll only know their plans for Blu Ray and the 360 when they make an announcement on it, that's if they have any viable plans for it at all.
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IAMJOB56 | March 07, 2008

I wouldn't be suprised to Se a external Blu-Ray player coming out sometime.

Then if they worked at it, they might even be able to put games onto the blu ray. lol.
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devil link | March 07, 2008

XBOX is going to have games looking as good as the PS3 now lol.
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  Raziel_326 | March 07, 2008
  
  Other than HD quality, Blu-Ray has nothing to do with how a game "looks". Plus, Microsoft will not be using Blu-Ray games, it is far too late for that. This will most likely just be an add on until the next XBOX console is released, THEN that's when XBOX will probably be using Blu-Ray for games.
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tallteen86 | March 08, 2008

Yeah....I'm getting REALLY sick of the people out there that think that the 360 will get Blu-ray games in the future >_>

I've already posted several times WHY that won't happen.

#1 - Developers won't do it, because there would be so few people with these Blu-ray based 360s.

#2 - It would annoy the HELL out of early adopters, since they'd be forced to either upgrade, or go without....There would be endless streams of POed e-mails going to MS on a daily basis because of this >_>

#3 - For those thinking they could just use an external attachment for the 'blu-ray games', not only would it still require everyone who wants to get the game to upgrade their system with a $150+ peripheral, but the transfer speeds would likely not be enough for the game (enough for a movie, sure, but not games)

#4 - IT JUST WON'T HAPPEN. It only takes a little common sense to realize that >_>

MS screwed themselves over in the long run, by not making their console have an built in HD-DVD drive (which also could possibly have saved HD-DVD over blu-ray). As well as lacking a standard HDD...
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Silver Mirror | March 08, 2008

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MS screwed themselves over in the long run, by not making their console have an built in HD-DVD drive (which also could possibly have saved HD-DVD over blu-ray)
While I agree with most of your points if the rumors are true that Microsoft where only using HD DVD to stall the format war then they wouldn't have wanted HD DVD to win either. Also consider if they had used HD DVD for games and it still lost what would have happened then? They wouldn't have even been able to make games then
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  Supernouva | March 12, 2008
  
  Microsoft doesn't make the HD DVD format, Toshiba does. Therefore, even if all movie companies gave their support to Blu-ray as they have now, it wouldn't kill HD DVD because Toshiba would still be making big bucks off of it because it's being used by MS and game developers. And game developers can't just "stop" making games on a certain disc format and start on a new one, not without losing truck loads of money first. Besides, HD DVD is still better than DVD-9, so MS should've installed internal HD DVD drives within the 360 and used HD DVD as their primary disc format. It would've made them much more money (since that's what MS is all about) and HD DVD would've had much more popularity.