Like the 7th time they've claimed the war is over and they've won?
This is nothing but marketing.
Though BluRay seems to stand the best chance, HD-DVD is not done with yet. In the least they're going to be causing BluRay some trouble for at least another year or more.
It's not like it was an MS CEO or someone making these comments, it's just an isolated incident. This crap happens every day within all sorts of business relationships.
At this point in the game I don't really see how it could have gone down without money being involved.
Just as I suspect the only reason MS has an Xbox 360 HD DVD player is because toshiba gave them some cash to "officially" support HD DVD.
I giggled when i read "Bill Gates uses psychology on people"
hehe it still sounds funny
gave this guy a disagree for READING THE ARTICLE.
AND POSSIBLY FOR UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH.
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Before you make yourself look...
Oh...
too late.
Honestly, nobody even read the article, and the title isn't actually a quotation, it's the authors writing in quotes...
Not once.... He said that their GOAL is to ensure that it is...
This is just flamebait, the crazed anti-xbox ninjas are already at it...
Obviously.
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Some things I'll just never understand.
I keep seeing the Sony fans go on about how they have all the good games this year.
It's not hard to find a list of the announced 2008 lineup for the 360. These are all games I'll be buying that come out in 2008:
1.) Operation Flashpoint 2
2.) Starwars: Force Unleashed
3.) Fallout 3
4.) Supreme Commander
5.) Battlefield: Bad Company
6.) FarCry 2
7.) Rainbow Six Vegas 2
8.) Chronicals of Riddick: Assault on Dark At...
The reason I disagree with you is because if the PS3 is the base of all multi platform games it makes them more difficult to reproduce on the PC, and the PC is the showcase workhorse of the industry. Also, games that are ported from the PS3 to the 360 tend to use a brute force approach (because it's possible with the 360 CPU) that wastes a lot of general use processing power. In the future when games utilize more system resources these kinds of ports will be much much more difficult. The r...
Because they both use complicated multi-core processors.
The year the 360 launched there were no game engines built specifically for multi-core use, generally every game that came out in the first year of the 360 used 1 out of 6 possible hardware threads, because traditionally games are single-threaded.
Much like the PS3, the Xbox 360 will learn from multithreading. People say "All the PS3 games only use 30% or less of the power." Keep in mind, we're ...
Last I saw it took 3 networked PS3s using a total of 14 SPEs to do ray tracing on a single car model.
First of all, it's "threw." Second of all, it is because Sony made the best decision to make the most money. You deserve to be called names and a Sony fanboy for that, but facts hurt so much more when someone's got way too much love for a corporation.
Microsoft and Sony are in it for the money. Sony saw a huge market on Xbox Live and to protect the interests of their stock holders released their media on Marketplace.
Because it adds to the cost of the console and creates challenges for developers who are not allowed to release their games on DVD.
Xbox Live Mareketplace adds no cost to the Xbox 360.
That you have as many agrees as disagrees.
That makes absolutely no sense... The 360 is the strongest console at this moment.
It's going to have no effect on Microsoft. Microsoft cares most about digital media distribution and likely only "sided" with HDDVD because it's a competitor of their competitor, because it's the cheaper technology, and because they were more than likely payed.
If suddenly nobody purchased a single Xbox 360 HD-DVD player it would mean very little due to the fact that they barely sell any anyways... They easily sell more accessories and software than any other consol...
I'm sorry to hear how little understanding you have of a service you likely never used.
The Xbox Live marketplaces offers videos in 480i, 480p, and 720p. 720p is considered High-Definition by today's standards. I don't know where you heard that you stream all the videos. You also clearly have a further misunderstanding of the service or don't understand what streaming means.
Why does everyone think Microsoft is in on the HD-DVD pie? Why is Sony the only mentioned proponent for BD? This articles is missing some professionalism, and it's going to lead to the same old my console is better than yours crap.
Even thought about purchasing the HD DVD player.
I have my 360 to play games. If I wanted to watch a movie I'd get a DVD player to hook up to my big screen. My 360 is in my gaming room on the same monitor as my gaming PC.
Someone did a study on something like this, it showed that gamers spend an average of 2 hours watching a movie and an average of 30+ hours playing a game. It just goes to show that gamers game. I don't know about you guys, but in my books any...