No BD for 360 or Next MS Console

[stockstar1138]

(my comments are in bold)

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Gaming/Industry/U9C2F7B5

"After several days of internal consideration Microsoft executives have said that they will not be producing a Blu ray Xbox 360. Instead the Company is working on a brand new gaming and entertainment solution that will replace the current Xbox 360."
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Figured they were

"The device will go head to head with a new home console from Sony that is both a gaming console and content management system. It is not expected to be launched untill late in 2009 or early 2010."

2009!!! Are you kidding me Microsoft! You just came out with the 360 2 and a half years ago and you are talking about releasing a console as early as next year! Wow! There is no way in hell you are EVER going to recoup your losses trying to get into people's living room, XBOX lost you billions, 360 is still in red and by announcing a new console, people are going to be holding off on 360s buying and just waiting for your next piece of sh1t!

"In Australia senior Telstra executives have said that the future is not Blu ray but Blu ray quality content delivered over an IP network or via content kiosks. Telstra have also said that they want to deliver both games and entertainment content to both the new Sony and Microsoft devices with consumers given the option of either downloading the content to the device or picking up the content from storage kiosks located at Telstra mobile stores and at key public transport hubs."

Its been discussed 3 million times why this is retarded, I hope those new Xbox 720 owners or whatever its called have blazing internet service.

Once the word is out you gotta be in an area that has really fast internet service and you gotta bone up the extra cash for it, this will be FAILBOX #3 from MS.

"David Moffett the Group Managing Director, Telstra Consumer Marketing & Channel met with several global Companies including Microsoft at the 2008 CES event in Las Vegas and he is adamant that the future is IP delivery of content over Blu ray. He is also working to deliver content to kiosks in over 1700 locations so that consumers can pick up games and HD 1080p content. He also believes that Toshiba made the right decision in pulling out of the HD DVD content battle and that they will benefit from the transition to IP based delivery over time."

and the bitrates are going to be so poor that upscaled DVD is going to look better. MS just get out of the business, you don't know what you are doing.

[Manco]

Oh Yeah.... I have nothing better to do than try to find a KIOSK at my local mall to download HD content. WTF... did these *******s just wake up from Woodstock??

[dobyblue]

Wow, these guys sure are incredibly delusional.

[saprano]

Microsoft is the devil we say it time and time again, but nobody believe's us. I need unreal to finish this off for me IN 5....4.....3.....2.....1

[aphex]

haha wow. at least ps and nintendo have a future.

[lch]

just as i thought, the other thread i already predict in 12-18 months, they will drop 360 and come out with a new 720. :lol

[xtop]

they can think it all they want right now, but the next xbox WILL have a disc reader

[saprano]

Heeyyyy xtop long time no see, how it hanging?

[xtop]

Originally Posted by saprano

Heeyyyy xtop long time no see, how it hanging?

haha..whats up man.

microsoft is pretty funny sometimes arent they

[lildawgryan]

The title of the article says Sony & Microsoft To Roll Out New IP Gaming Consoles. Are you guys so biased to ignor the sony part and only bash microsoft? They happened to throw a random date for microsofts machine in there. Now im not a fan of microsoft at all, but im not about to tear apart an article leaving out important facts so I can bash one company. I highly doubt we will see another console by the beninning of 2010.

The device will go head to head with a NEW home console from SONY that is both a gaming console and content management system

Stop reading inbetween the lines....

[xtop]

Originally Posted by lildawgryan

The title of the article says Sony & Microsoft To Roll Out New IP Gaming Consoles. Are you guys so biased to ignor the sony part and only bash microsoft? They happened to throw a random date for microsofts machine in there. Now im not a fan of microsoft at all, but im not about to tear apart an article leaving out important facts so I can bash one company. I highly doubt we will see another console by the beninning of 2010.

The device will go head to head with a NEW home console from SONY that is both a gaming console and content management system

Stop reading inbetween the lines....

if you only knew this thread will blow up and be full of biased hatred across the board, all the while they ignore sony was at the meeting.

[Blu As Hell]

These cats are insane, they just released a console 2 years ago and they're already going to release another one in late '09 early '10? The funny thing about it, when they release said doorstop (xbox 720 or 420 or whatever they'll call it) it will still be playing catch up with the PS3, with or without a Blu-ray drive in it.

[kjacobs03]

We're pretty sure they are talking about the PS3.

[DetroitSportsFan]

So Microsoft doesn't want to use BDs, they would rather have gamers download games to their hard drives? LOL, the pirates are going to love this.

[scoobiesnackarff]

Originally Posted by lildawgryan

The title of the article says Sony & Microsoft To Roll Out New IP Gaming Consoles. Are you guys so biased to ignor the sony part and only bash microsoft? They happened to throw a random date for microsofts machine in there. Now im not a fan of microsoft at all, but im not about to tear apart an article leaving out important facts so I can bash one company. I highly doubt we will see another console by the beninning of 2010.

The device will go head to head with a NEW home console from SONY that is both a gaming console and content management system

Stop reading inbetween the lines....

Which is exactly why this article is bunk to begin with. First the person says Blu isn't the future, yea, Sony is going to give up on something they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on in a matter of a few years . . . then they say the console will come out only 4 years after the PS3 again . When has Sony ever brought a system out after 4 years? Then its going to be based on IP delivery? I would believe Microsoft's Steve Balmer over this author.

Alan

[SGRSBSKIER]

If they actually release it that soon the next Xbox (1080?) will be released about the same time the PS4 is released. People complained about the PS3 for being to expensive well you have to buy 2 Xbox's over the lifespan of the Playstation. There were reports that many of the first year games for the 360 were supposed to be for the original Xbox but they told them to push it back so they would be on the 360. But now everyone knows their will only be games on their system released in the 2 years so releases will be winding down. The PS3 is just getting started this year.

[kjacobs03]

Originally Posted by kjacobs03

I honestly believe we will see a new Xbox by Christmas 2009 or sooner.

My prediction from 2-14-08

[WickyWoo]

"After several days of internal consideration Microsoft executives have said that they will not be producing a Blu ray Xbox 360. Instead the Company is working on a brand new gaming and entertainment solution that will replace the current Xbox 360."
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Figured they were

Just like Sony is. Standard procedure is that you finish a console, take a month off, and start on the next one

They're working on something like the PSX. A home media center/360 combination that can also run PC games is what he's referring to. Sony is working on something similar. This thing is supposed to be a hub. Control your lights, thermostat, music/PVR, whatever.

Microsoft has made it quite clear they want to eliminate the optical drives all together. And they might just manage it for this media box. For the 720? Hell no. That won't show up until 2011 at the earliest. Besides, every attempt at boxes like this has been a collossal failure, PSX included, especially in a country where people get the vast majority of the features they offer from their cable companies already.

Notice this is also targeted at Australia, where packaged media sales suck for game companies due to many factors.

[saprano]

Originally Posted by lildawgryan

The title of the article says Sony & Microsoft To Roll Out New IP Gaming Consoles. Are you guys so biased to ignor the sony part and only bash microsoft? They happened to throw a random date for microsofts machine in there. Now im not a fan of microsoft at all, but im not about to tear apart an article leaving out important facts so I can bash one company. I highly doubt we will see another console by the beninning of 2010.

The device will go head to head with a NEW home console from SONY that is both a gaming console and content management system

Stop reading inbetween the lines....

"The device will go head to head with a new home console from Sony that is both a gaming console and content management system. It is not expected to be launched untill late in 2009 or early 2010."

it says nothing about sony's console in 2009, or 10. it says microsoft is making a divice to go head to head with sony in 09 or 10, we all know sony is NOT making a new console for next year. in fact i dout microsoft is making one to. and they will have a disc based console, they have to.

[Luis_A51]

Why would I want to go through all the trouble of finding a Kiosk to download a game when I can just go to a store and buy it?

How giant of a hard drive am I gonna need for Bluray-quality games? Why in the hell would I want to waste time downloading a 50gig game when I can just go to the dozens of stores in a 5km radius and just buy it?

A had a discussion with a friend of mine about kiosks. There is absolutely not one meaningful benefit of buying from a kiosk over buying from a store. Not one.

Sure there will always be downloadable games, look at the PSN. But theres no way in hell id buy a gigantic game like MGS4 as a download.