What Microsoft will announce at CES

[Johnnytoxic]

I'm sorry guys but this made me laugh really good.

Microsoft(a la Jon Lovitz's Liar): We are here to announce our brand new XBOX 360 with built-in HD_D... errrr Blu-ray player... yeah, that's right Blu-ray...

Again I apologize but you have to laugh.

 

[NokkonWud]

Laugh at what?
I don't get it.

 

[McManicMan]

come on Nokkon, surely you ain't that slow to notice Warner Brothers have now gone Blu-Ray meaning HD-DVD format is hardly supported any more (or going to be soonish).

 

[Memphis]

I'm sorry guys but this made me laugh really good.



Again I apologize but you have to laugh.

Wow, a shockingly pathetic thread from one of the biggest fanboys on the forum.

 

[Soulja]

zzzzzz

 

[JaFFa]

Id be prety happy if they announced an external blu ray player add-on like the HD DVD player. Even better still one of those combi drives that does both.

 

[Wyrdo]

Didn't they say in the past if the market went one way or the other they'd make the appropriate add-on for the 360?

So if everyone does go Blu-Ray (It's about time we had a clear 'winner') they'll just make a Blu-Ray add on drive?

It doesn't bother me either way though as I'm not interested.


Edit: And this didn't need another thread.

 

[the_dead_parrot]

I dont see why you find it funny. I am sure that even with all the rivalry between the two companies that if Microsoft asked for a blu-ray drive to be released for the 360 sony would say yes. They would be stupid to turn down the opportunity, when the 360 has a user base of above 10 million. Obviously all will not buy one but a decent amount would, meaning more money for sony and more wide spread use of blu-ray. Surely thats win win

 

[Werewolf]

I beleieve they did, and indeed can.
The joys of not centring the hardware on a specific, comparatively expensive media format that is (or had) an uncertain future at the time the primary hardware is being designed.

MS can release a blu-ray add on for the 360 at any time (assuming they are not locked into a HD only contract*) they see fit, with relative ease as the chances are it would just require a minor update for the 360 (and they could probably using the same housing as they do for the HD-dvd add on with just cosmetic changes). They could even keep backwards compatibility with the existing 360hd dvd add on owners collections by using a combo drive in a revision of the add on.
Basically it probably wouldn't be any harder for them than say changing the internal drive from a Lite-on to an LG (or whatever ones they use).


*Which is unlikely.

 

[NokkonWud]

come on Nokkon, surely you ain't that slow to notice Warner Brothers have now gone Blu-Ray meaning HD-DVD format is hardly supported any more (or going to be soonish).

I know WB have gone BR, still don't understand it though .

 

[KNiVES]

I'm sorry guys but this made me laugh really good.



Again I apologize but you have to laugh.

You must live a pretty boring life if you find that funny. I find stuff like Monty Python or Dr. Strangelove funny, not hardware and movie format wars.

 

[NeoReloaded]

I'm sorry guys but this made me laugh really good.



Again I apologize but you have to laugh.

Dude you are lame! It's not our fault you have to be a fan boy cos you cant afford a 360 aswell as a PS3!

 

[Johnnytoxic]

I shall explain.

The core of the joke was that there were heavy rumours of a hd-dvd built in Ultimate Xbox360 and this is how the announcement would have gone

EDIT: reading it again it was funnier at the time. I shall re-read my future jokes.

 

[Kreeeee]

zzzzzz

I concur.

Ps3 fanboys will lap it up though

 

[mmj_uk]

Laugh at what?
I don't get it.

I think the joke is Microsoft's indecisiveness, they never really showed any faith in HD-DVD hence the throw-away add-on drive, if it were true of an Ultimate edition (we'll probably never know now) then it was 1-2 years too late.

 

[fieldy]

360 ultimate edition with built in HD DVD