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The Genius
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| Commentator wrote: | | Also ps3 games just seem alot more expensive. one of the awesome things about 360 imo is there is just a bunch of cheapo games for it you can buy and play for under $20, and I am pretty sure a factor in that is dvd disc price vs blu ray disc price. Also why the hell would anyone want blu ray on a 360? The price of getting an add one would probably total the amount of getting a blu ray player anyway |
English only please.
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| Mr Waffle wrote: | | You realise that development is only a few months old, right? Those discs aren't even on the market yet. So it's not exactly something you can make rock solid business announcements on. |
Actually the possibillity has been around for ages (before the PS3 even came out), it's just only recently that it's happening since there's not much demand for it.
| Mr Waffle wrote: | | And making two versions of the same game!? You'd have to rewrite not insubstantial amount of the game to accommodate it. The fact that data would have to sit in entirely different places on a DVD vs a blu ray alone would mean substantial changes would have to be made so load times didn't turn into complete garbage. Optimising the game for two entirely different systems would double the work load. |
If you are making a multiplatform game (PS3 & 360) then it's not too much extra work since the PS3 ver would already deal with most of the problems. It's certainly not a non-issue but I wasn't being entirely serious, I just like poking holes in marketings "excuses"  .
| Commentator wrote: | | Also why the hell would anyone want blu ray on a 360? The price of getting an add one would probably total the amount of getting a blu ray player anyway |
Sadly not true, blu-ray players are still rather expensiveand just a drive using the 360 to decode in software would probably end up being a little cheaper... not that MS would price it that way though now that I think about it
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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i just want microsoft to improve media playback on the xbox =(
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