Posted by Jay G. on 09/27/05 02:30

elrous0@pop.uky.edu wrote:
>Jay G. wrote:
>> With it incorporated into PS3, what's going to happen is that a lot of
>> consumers are going to have a Blu-Ray player in the house almost
>> by default, while getting a HD-DVD player would be a seperate
>> decision. The PS2 was for a lot of people their first DVD player as well.
>
>Yep, this gives blu-ray a major advantage, particularly if the PS3
>really takes off in sales and will play blu-ray movies right out of the
>box (I'm not sure if they've confirmed that yet).
>
>MS, on the other hand, is taking a considerable risk by rushing the
>Xbox 360 to market with just a standard DVD drive (and multiple
>configurations, one without even a hard drive).

Yeah, multiple X-box 360 configurations is going to be problematical.
Consumers are use to being able to play any game for a system
in their machine. With multiple configurations, gamers are going
to have to check the "system requirements" of a game to see
if it'll work on their 360. Of course, PS2 had something like this
with the network connector and harddrive, but those were considered
more optional then than they are now.

With the possibillity of a revised 360 with HD-DVD later on,
developers are going to face the issue of either making a
game that doesn't work on the early adopter's machines,
one that doesn't take advantage of the increased storage,
or make two versions of the game, one for each drive type.

-Jay

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