Sony & Microsoft discussing Blu-ray in XBox 360

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Originally Posted by bajor27

I don't entirely understand the logic behind this from both companies point of view.

1. Is it better for Sony to get Blu drives into the hands of Xbox owners by providing a Blu Addon, or is it better for Sony to help distinguish the PS3 as having a clear advantage being that it has Blu-ray.

2. The 360's life cycle is about halfway through already (if not more), so is it really worth it to just be getting into Blu now, especially with them already having a download service and pissed off HD-DUD owners?


I have a thought that there is some back-end deal to this that MS will guarantee that Blu-ray will be built into their neXtBox (which can't be too many years off) if Sony will give them a Blu addon at a decent rate for their current system. Sony could really reap some benefits of two consoles having it built in - Imagine them getting a bit off money for every neXtBox and PS3 game sold.

To be honest though, I can't imagine MS ever releasing a new system without something better than DVD and a built in HDD though.

The ultimate goal of blu-ray is to eventually have mass adoption right? You can't do that by ignoring certain sectors of the market, including 360 owners. The way I see it, if Microsoft were to release a blu-ray add-on, the cost of a 360 plus the add-on would be more than a 40gb PS3 anyway, so the PS3 will still look like the better value to consumers. Also, if the blu-ray add-on will be anything like the HD-DVD add-on, it won't be able to play any of the next-gen audio formats, which would further solidify the PS3 being the better choice if you wanted a game system that doubles as a solid blu-ray player.