PlayStation 3: The HD-DVD Killer?

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Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot with this add on, it's a halfway measure to try and rival the PS3's HD movie playback. But it comes nowhere near matching the PS3's playback features.

MS, in my opinion, can never put the drive inside the machine - the flack they would get from their existing userbase and the gaming media would be huge. But if they did put one inside, there would be a call for the format to support games too, and that would really make the existing userbase mad! They'd end up having to re-release the add on so it supported HD-DVD games, etc.

I can't see it ever happening, what I can see is the add-on being phased out as HD-DVD gives way to blu-ray.

There is only one console that is 100% equipped for the High Definition age, and it ain't the Xbox360 or the Wii.