360 crisis with Crysis

[Bolivar]

ha 360's in trouble anyway without that... since HD-DVD is dead soon no-one will manufacture HD Disks for the games to be pressed on, 360's gonna have to convert to BluRay or die in the water in the near future, unless Microsoft makes a division for manufacturing HD-DVDs to press their games to, and gets licensing rights set for all 3rd party game manufacturers to press their games to MS brand HD-DVDs...

when i first heard of BluRay it was obvious HD was obsolete before it even came out...

That's ridiculous. As long as there is a demand for HD-DVDs, someone will be more than happy to make and sell them. Xbox 360 games create that demand.

I don't think the 360 was ever intended to play HD-DVD games, I'm not sure if it even could using the add-on. In any case, it's already a done deal as Microsoft is phasing out their HD-DVD players for 360.

Also, Supply and Demand looks great on paper, but it doesn't work that way in the real world. The cost of opening up a plant is very high, and considering no movie studios are going to go to them to press HD-DVDs, mostly since Wal Mart and Best Buy won't even carry them, there would be no way of balancing out marginal revenue to cost. Microsoft is in a tough spot because they're going to have to choose a format for their next console, they're already behind using DVDs now, there's really not alot of options other than Blue Ray, maybe they'll press their own HD-DVDs, but it's highly unlikely. I think they might come out with their own, some type of read only storage device.