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Blu ray XBox-360 soon?

William Henning - Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | 12:07PM (PST)

Is Microsoft about to swallow a bitter blue pill?

Digitimes reports that Microsoft may be adopting a built-in Blu-Ray drive from Lite-On for the XBox 360 - with shipments to Microsoft starting as early as the second half of this year.

The problem is that replacing a $20 DVD-ROM with a $95-$100 Bru-Ray drive will increase the cost of manufacturing a Xbox-360 by $75-$80, potentially requiring Microsoft to sell it at a loss. There is also a potential of Sony trying to bollox a Blu-360 by increasing the price of the Blu-Ray read heads it sells to LiteOn.

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Section: Microsoft Consoles

Comments:

April 2nd, 2008 1:55PM(PST)

Avalith

Already been debunked by Microsoft. DigiTimes was either smoking something or they tried to pull a very lame April Fool's.

April 2nd, 2008 3:16PM(PST)

THM

I already knew what Microsoft will do!!!!

They will just follow Sony's steps!!!

April 2nd, 2008 3:56PM(PST)

Avalith

It's going to be rather tough to "follow" Sony's footsteps when Microsoft is already playing the game they know and love so well: Catch up (read: Vista vs. Mac OSX, Zune vs. iPod, IE8 vs. Firefox and other browsers, etc.).

April 3rd, 2008 4:41AM(PST)

x_revenge

copied from the article:
Jimmy Hsu, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 1 April 2008]

doesn't the "[Tuesday 1 April 2008]" part ring a bell?

April 3rd, 2008 10:39AM(PST)

bhenning

LOL... I guess I fell for it; however it DOES make sense for Microsoft to go Blu

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