Microsoft - Blu-Ray is NOT the ‘Future of Home Entertainment‘

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According to CVG, Microsoft strongly believes that ‘digital media’, and not Blu-Ray, is the “future of home entertainment”. Ever since HD DVD gave up and backed out of the ‘next-gen’ format, there have always been rumors of Microsoft potentially releasing a Blu-Ray drive add-on. The Blu-Ray drive would help to increase its media playback capabilities, as well as possibily creating games using the Blu-Ray discs for more space to work around, thereby playing on the same field as the PlayStation 3.

However, it seems no matter how much people talk about how Xbox 360 needs a Blu-Ray drive, Microsoft will not allow it and instead, continue with their ways of stating how digital media will take over physical media. Recent comments from game developers, including Capcom, have stated that they’ve had to cut content out from Xbox 360 versions of their games (including Lost Planet 2) because of the size restrictions of the aging DVD format.

Director of Xbox and Entertainment at Microsoft Stephen Gill told CVG,”We have no plans to adopt [a] Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies.”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer left many guessing earlier on in the week, when he hinted that there will be revised models of the Xbox 360 coming “in the future”. So what do you guys think these ‘revised’ Xbox 360 models will include? Blu-Ray? Natal?