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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 3969603" data-attributes="member: 149">Which format wins isn't really that important to Microsoft. While they are firmly in the HD-DVD camp, they haven't bet their existence on it like Sony has with Blu-Ray. By making Blu-Ray disks the format for the PS3, Sony has committed themselves to the format for at least the length of the PS3's life. Microsoft has made no similar commitment to HD-DVD and if it vanished right this instance I don't see how it would significantly hurt the company.This already exists and has made no impact in the market. They cost significantly more to make than either a plain DVD or a HD-DVD disk (since you are essentially making and gluing two disks together). Are priced the same as HD-DVD disks and so as far as I can tell from sales numbers, are not selling at all to people who don't already have HD-DVD player. This renders the whole point of the combo disk irrelevant. They might as well just be plain HD-DVD disks. Then there's the compatability issues and other problems they've had (not major but they've been there). It's essentially a solution without a purpose. IF the disks were sold for the same price as regular DVDs, they might make a difference, but they aren't and thus they won't.See above, except that you don't even have the vague hope of attracting attention from a market (DVDs) that dwarfs the two high-def formats put together.While I am quite certain that they will release a 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive at some point. It won't change a critical difference between the PS3 and the 360, that the games will NOT come on the high def format disk. Requiring add-ons for a console, especially expensive add-ons has been a failure every time it's been tried. First off you're going to have a year and a half's worth of 360s shipped without one. Then you're boosting the price of the unit to the same or more than the PS3 and the lower price has been a significant selling point for the 360. So most likely, MS will continue to sell models that don't include it. Which means that game makers are not going to ship their products with a disk that the majority of the user base will not be able to use.Nope, wouldn't change a thing.</blockquote>

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