12-16-2005, 10:17 AM
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Microsoft Denies HD-DVD for 360
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Responding to statements made through a Japanese news service earlier this week, Microsoft have taken the unusual step of commenting on 'rumour and speculation', denying reports that the company will launch a HD-DVD version of the Xbox 360 console next year. Wednesday's report from a Tokyo-based news organisation is presumably related to a statement made by Bill Gates in the summer, in which he said "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capacity of an HD-DVD player or something else." Despite the big cheese himself commenting on this possibility, then, Redmond were quick to offer denials - presumably fearing that word of a better model forthcoming might further dent lacklustre Japanese sales of the new console.
"Microsoft, in both America and Japan, has not announced anything regarding the possibility of a next generation DVD drive being placed in the Xbox 360," read an official response offered to US consumer games site IGN.com. "There are currently no plans to release an Xbox 360 equipped with a next generation DVD player."
Even the Xbox's Japanese boss had previously hinted that a HD-DVD version in 2006 was "a possibility", qualifying this suggestion by adding that "If the Xbox 360 uses a next-generation DVD drive in the future, it will only be used for watching movies that run on next-generation DVDs." So no more than 9gb still for game designers, who will have to stick with standard DVD formats for this generation.
More on this, if there is anything else to be said, as we get it.
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http://www.ferrago.com/story/7038
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