some companies cannot leave their optical drive's alone

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Originally Posted by joeorc

they would "realy only use it for MOVIES only" because if they started to use it for game's than there would be major backlash..

which still brings it back to the first point..by not incorperating a BLU-RAY or HD-DVD drive off the bat the xbox360 will prob. just only use DVD 9 , for games..nothing wrong with that ..but it does show short sightedness

The first major cross-platform game that comes out with reviews that say how much better it is without disc swaps, is the beginning of the end to XBox 360.

DVD-9 throttles innovation. They are forced down the real-time rendering path because they simply don't have enough capacity for pre-rendered stuff, or it would be too computationally expensive to decode it in a real-time game.

Simple example:

Driving into Times Square and having the actual ads appear on the displays are trivially possible when capacity is not an issue. Xbox 360 would have to maximally compress VC-1 (expensive computationally for decompression) just to have a shot. The PS/3 can leave things extremely lightweight computationally.

Gary