Dead air You dont know what you are talking about

Dead air

You dont know what you are talking about. I think MS make a great move by making it as an add on. It lower their expenses and the customers. It also increase their profit margin. As far as blu ray goes, its only for movie for now. DVD9 is sufficient for 99% of the games out there. If there is no better format come out, the next version of the xbox may include one. However, if the cable and telecomm open up the broadband, the next version of the xbox might not even has optical drive at all. They can just equip a 1TB hdd or 2x500gb in the Xbox and gigabit ethernet card, and have the games stream over xbox live. HDD is getting cheaper by day, you can get a 1tb external for about 200 or less. In two years, it probably cost 1 I think MS make a great move by making it as an add on. How did it lower the expense, the HDDVD ad-on started its life 2 As far as blu ray goes, its only for movie for now. I own a PS3 and it seems that all my games are on BLU-RAY. Chances are the games do not take up the entire Disc, but lets take for example the New Metal Gear Solid that is coming soon. Developers had to cut content out because even 50GB, the game was larger have-enough-space At least with Sony, they choose to move forward bu putting their HD Drive in the Unit. It was a gamble especially if Blu-ray did not win the HD War. MS Choose to make their HD Drive external, so when you put that with the Cost of the 360, lets see that makes Prices their Peak not on Discontinued products. Also this makes it the same as the PS3 in abilities out of the box: So right now to get the 360 out of the box to heave a similar hardware you would need to spend: Now you are saying The HD-DVD Drive is only 50 now. Ok, then the price is now 597, but what are you going to use the HD-DVD for??? Fine, it makes a decent Up convert DVD Player that generally take a literal minute to boot the movie! Bottom line, for 399 you get a next gen console that has all you need. Firmware upgrade will add more. The only advantage of the 360 right now are is XBOX Live and the game library. The PS3 does have some catching up to do there, but HD-DVD folding it in will impact what happens to the 3 Game developers WANTED to make HD-DVD games and MS did not. The PS3 does have backward compatibility, unlike the usual Microsoft way of things to stop support after 3 years. Regardless of the PS3, they still sell and support the PS Game developers still sell and support games XBOX is no longer made nor are the games supported. This also proves that MS is not in it for the hardware, its just in it for the Software. Really game developers wanted to make hd-dvd games? where? The Hddvd was always intended as an add on not everyone owns one and MS would have to develop for two different configurations. Love your game machine all you want, but its going to take time before the ps3 power is really going to be used. As it stands a year later the xbox360 is still selling and the games still look better especially when compared to their multi-platform counterparts. Ill eventually pick up a xbox360 but I have a ps2, so dead air the time being ps3 makes sense. In order to get to the price point of the 40 gb they had to cut out a bunch. The main selling point with the ps3 was it would be able to play playstation 1 2 games and upconvert them to make them look better. As it stands you cannot buy a backwards compatible ps3 unless you go through ebay or an individual seller. Best buy, Circuit City, Walmart, Target etcetc do not carry it in their stores or have them online. Hey retardo, 349 xbox 360 comes with a 20 gig hard drive.