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Originally Posted by Szlia Pointless as an accessory. It's about as silly as adding a proper DVD drive to the GameCube or something.
It will have limited support by games since it's an accessory that do not provide the same significant boost CD-Rom drive provided 16-bit console and their 2 meg cartridges and people will want to buy a proper drive to watch movies. A very low price tag compared to dedicated drives could be an asset though.
Anyway that HD-DVD drive should have been in the Xbox 360 from the get go to make it a true HD generation machine. But is the market ready for a true HD machine and the cost it implies? We get to know that in november I guess. |
I know a lot of people with an xbox that never bought a real DVD player (and with xbmc, it's superior to just about any DVD player you can buy too). I doubt xbmc360 can/will ever be made, so the 360 isn't quite as good an option from that standpoint, but it would still be a no-brainer to buy the add-on HD-DVD player if it's priced aggressively. Although, unless I'm remembering wrong, I could have sworn that the 360 had no HDMI or HDCP-over-DVI cables available... without that an HD-DVD player would be utterly worthless, since it's not like it's for games anyway; MS has already said that games will never use HD-DVDs.
I wonder if a third party will make a Blu-ray player for it too.
