If Microsoft truly have any plans to include an HD-DVD drive with their Xbox 360, Toshiba ain't talking. In fact, they're outright denying it.
Rumors circulated last week that Microsoft would finally man up and include the HD-DVD drive in (yet another) revision of the console. Right before they made him pose with Victoria Beckham in lingerie, an unnamed Toshiba exec told Stuff that's not in the cards.
"It's got nothing to do with us," the mystery exec said. "But we know Microsoft doesn't want to include the HD-DVD so as not to limit the user's experience."
Wait, what? "Limit the users experience" how, exactly? By giving them more functionality? Whatever the fuzzy logic may be, Xbox 360 owners itching to watch Transformers: The Movie in high definition can pick up the drive seperately whenever they damned well feel like it. Hey, I hear there are some good deals going on right now.
[Via Games Industry]
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11:51 AM on 10.24.2007
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All they would be doing was putting the drive in the system to allow for movie playback out of the box. HD-DVD drives play normal DVDs, so all the old games would work fine. I don't see where the limitation would be.
Oh, and awesome caption. I laughed... across water.
If games were put on HD-DVD I wouldn't mind as long as a firmware update would allow me to play them from my HD-DVD add-on. Currently, the HD-DVD add-on is very limited in its functionality. While it will play HD-DVDs and DVDs flawlessly, it will not playback mp4s burned to a DVD like the built-in 360 drive will and it certainly won't read my game discs. Yes, I'm lazy enough that I wish I could put Halo 3 in one drive and Orange Box in the other and never have to change a disc.
I don't really mind having a choice.
Why is this not a clickable link?
I'm disappointed...
I'm still waiting on the whole HD movie player until the smoke clears and their's a clear goddamn winner. Fow now I think I'll continue to download movies off Marketplace. They need a better selection, though.
Besides, I already have the HDDVD add-on. :)
just sayin'