Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
bill gates and microsoft killed HD dvd by not backing toshiba, all bill would have had to do was have had the xbox 360 gaming systems games on HD-DVD disc.
bill gates wants online downloading of movies in HD via xbox live yeah those low quality encodes in 720 p are just as good as 1080 p, yeah right.
i would not been all that suprised if in a year or two the 360 comes out in an upgraded version whose games are on blu ray, like sony.
having dvd games that have to be split up on four or five discs is rediculous when they can fit on a single disc.
there are rumors that final fantasy XIII which comes out in christmas 2008 is so massive it will take three dual layer blu ray discs to play on the ps3.
bill gates and microsoft killed HD dvd by not backing toshiba, all bill would have had to do was have had the xbox 360 gaming systems games on HD-DVD disc.
bill gates wants online downloading of movies in HD via xbox live yeah those low quality encodes in 720 p are just as good as 1080 p, yeah right.
i would not been all that suprised if in a year or two the 360 comes out in an upgraded version whose games are on blu ray, like sony.
having dvd games that have to be split up on four or five discs is rediculous when they can fit on a single disc.
there are rumors that final fantasy XIII which comes out in christmas 2008 is so massive it will take three dual layer blu ray discs to play on the ps3.
Ask the average consumer if they can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. They can't. That's why industry analysts say it's just as good. That really has nothing to do with Xbox Live though.
As far as MS putting a Blu-ray drive on the Xbox, don't bet on it. Instead, they're more likely to go with downloading the game right to the Xbox hard drive with Xbox Live. It would be similar to the way Steam works. A new games coming out, you preorder it and the moment it goes RTM, it starts downloading from their servers. Once it's available at retail, it unlocks and you play. No more messing with media, no more having to go to the store. That's how I see it working anyway, don't know if they'll really go that route or not.
Finally, market forces killed HD-DVD. Not Bill Gates, not Microsoft. That's just silly conspiracy talk. Microsoft is not all powerful.
I have yet to see a game that comes on DVD that doesn't fit on a single, dual layer DVD. Then again, I don't buy a lot of physical media games. The last 3 or 4 games I've bought have all been through Steam. If a game, like Final Fantasy, requires 3 dual layer blu ray discs, it's more than likely because of all the HD video content that they're putting into the game. The game part itself probably doesn't take up that much space. Final Fantasy games are well known for including lots of fmv cut scenes that sometimes run for several minutes. That's not a game in my mind, that's freaking movie that you interact with.