Microsoft hasn’t determined whether to do Xbox 360 games in blue-laser HD DVD, but has ruled it out for “this holiday” when it ships its HD DVD drive for movie playback through the Xbox 360, said Dave Luehmann, gen. mgr.- Microsoft Game Studios. “Speed of loading” is Microsoft’s big concern about HD DVD games on the Xbox 360, Luehmann said. Xbox 360 games on red-laser DVD9 can run at 12X speeds at data transfer rates that aren’t a problem, but the same can’t necessarily be said of HD DVD game content, and Microsoft wants to be confident of pleasing users, he said. He wasn’t more specific about delivery timing of the HD DVD drive. Microsoft hasn’t released pricing on the drive, but “will do so shortly,” he said. He vowed it would be offered at a “great and affordable” price, repeating statements of other Microsoft executives that the drive would be the “cheapest” HD DVD player available.
There's no sauce, apparently that is from a subscription news site.
The cynic in me imagines a Halo 3 "only on HDDVD" release, and if that happens I'll be selling up and getting a PS3 (since MGS4 will be about due).
It will be interesting to see how long until this rumour is officially denied, or if in fact it ends up happening.
Pat wrote:The cynic in me imagines a Halo 3 "only on HDDVD" release, and if that happens I'll be selling up and getting a PS3 (since MGS4 will be about due).
Will you have some sort of HDTV by then Patrick?
You wouldn't believe the things I've seen through your eyes...
Jizzy McLobber wrote:it'd sell the add on, but they would lose heaps of money through lost sales.
lost sales of halo 3 if it was bundled with the hddvd drive? i don't think we'd notice much...
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion" - L. Ron Hubbard
I'd take that. Make the HALO 3 SE actually worth having perhaps.
I'm going to have to get this addon if it's around the $250 mark. Upscaling DVD's and HD-DVD playback without wearing the fuck out of my 360 game playing lense seems like a decent idea to me. Especially considering how much a standalone player will clock in at.
Peppermint Lounge wrote:How about Halo 3 the game on DVD + a HD-DVD bonus disc featuring the ending
fixed to incorporate correct level of terrible jokes
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion" - L. Ron Hubbard
If the hd-dvd addon is a 1x only HD-DVD drive then there could be lots of streaming/loading issues. So they probably couldn't use it for games even if they liked to.
Jizzy McLobber wrote:pgr3 load times aren't even that bad
yes they fucking are, you can't even begin to pretend they're ok
i've seen people walk away from 360 demo stands thanks to the loading in that game
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion" - L. Ron Hubbard
