That's where the money is for Microsoft, and that's where the company's focus seems to be. Microsoft will do everything it can to get the best games on its platform while trying to entice you to buy downloads of their content.
Unless the technology comes built into a later model 360, I don't see the price being low enough to justify getting an add-on drive instead of a stand-alone Blu-ray player or a PS3, and I simply don't see why it makes economic sense for Microsoft. The HD DVD add-on drive never took off in huge numbers, Microsoft wants to push its digital download services more than they'd want to license the technology from Sony, and I just don't see a huge market for a Blu-ray player on the platform. I keep seeing people saying that the 360 now needs a Blu-ray add-on, and I just don't understand it. Today we discuss whether or not the Xbox 360 needs a Blu-ray drive.īen: So HD DVD is dead, Blu-ray has won, and now the will-they-won't-they back and forth from both Sony and Microsoft is getting crazy. In the Showdown, w e pick a topic, flip a coin to see which side each OT writer gets to argue, then present it to you. And, while the company could have followed Nintendo's lead and created its own optical discs, using a Blu-ray drive - with movie playback intact - should help position the Xbox One as an all-in-one box for the living room.The Showdown returns. While the limits of DVD as a storage medium meant the next Xbox was always due for an upgrade, it's unlikely that Microsoft will have considered going digital-only a viable path given the lagging state of broadband penetration worldwide. There may be palpable irony in Microsoft's shift to the optical media format pushed by rival Sony, but Redmond won't have had many other options on the table. There's palpable irony in Microsoft's shift to Blu-ray The player was discontinued in early 2008. Microsoft released an HD DVD drive accessory for the Xbox 360 in 2006, but it was only ever used to play movies stored on the ill-fated format. The move marks an about face from Microsoft, which opted to support DVD media on the Xbox 360 while Sony's PlayStation 3 made use of Blu-ray technology. It's not currently known what speed the Blu-ray drive runs at. Games for the new console will be stored on Blu-ray discs, matching the PlayStation 4 as well as the Wii U's high-capacity proprietary media.
Microsoft's Xbox One will come complete with a Blu-ray drive.
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