Rumor: Lite-On bringing Blu-ray drives to 360

April Fools?

If I already haven't purchase a ps3 and knew this was coming I probably would have skipped out on the machine all together. Picked up vegas 2 for ps3 only to find a forced 3 gig install and the load times aren't even that fast. Meh.

Thats strange, I am about to be a junior in college and I've never come across "tête-à-tête" before. Joystiq is a good learning source. ;P

Anyways, I like to hear that Blu-ray might really end up on the 360. I have friends that would buy that add-on, but who knows, it is just a rumor... :(

MS also bought Santa Monica Studios and the next God of War is 360 exclusive!!

shouldn't these announcements hold off until April 2nd? Even if it's true, I already got a pro & elite 360... next console is ps3 once there's a must-have title (and price drop would be nice!!!)

MERDE!

Hmm, is Microsoft getting worried they get buried in a PS3 Blu-Ray avalanche? The PS3 has been outselling the xbox360 globally every week since mid-november last year and from the point where Blu-Ray won the HD war PS3 sales are even competitive in xbox 360 heartland, USA.

If Microsoft starts including a built in Blu-Ray player in future xbox360 units thats a clear sign of attempted damage control.

Looking at business logistics how would MS benefit from adding blu ray into their console. If people are buying the console for the bluray they already have a PS3 and the 360 bluray wouldn't add any special features. I definetly see an add on but not a dedicated drive like this article wants to indicate.

I don't think this is an April Fools thing because this story has popped up all over the internet in the last 6 hours: http://news.google.ca/news?q=microsoft+liteon

If this is true I wouldn't worry about games being pressed onto blu-ray discs. Hell, devs can't even code a game to take advantage of the hard drive. That is unless you're Burnout Paradise and require it for online play.

My first dvd drive was a lite-on. Whisper quiet. Way too quiet for the 360. I call B.S.

Hmmmm, this seems fishy to me. If anything I would think they would just have a Blu-Ray add-on like the HD DVD one. I doubt that the 360 is about to start having them internally. Oh well. I recently found a 20GB PS3 sitting on a store shelf, they said they found it barried in the back and had been there since around launch day. Got it for $269 CDN.

Awesome. The blue goes so good with the red.

Well this can only mean better games for the 360 which is already the leading console for great games.

- Does that confirm MGS4 on 360 because they're too arrogant to compress their data to fit on a DVD?
- I think I'll get one if it's true. But, hopefully it doesn't add $200 to the pricetag.

Fishy. Very fishy. I'll believe it when they post it again after April Fool's day (and probably not even then, not as an internal drive).

Waitaminit. How does adding a blu ray drive to be used only for movies indicate a focus by MS on releasing *games* exactly?

If they were so focused on *games* why not have HD integration and use for *games* across all xbox360 SKU's? Or why not allow games to be run off of HD dvd's.

Since games need decent hardware to run on, why not ensure your hardware is sufficient to run them without breaking down in the first place.

Since they are so focused on games, why initially charge so much to the user to repair MS' defective product?

Shouldn't all of these game sales buffer the cost of repair so they don't pass these additional costs to their customers? It was their fault after all.

Nickel and dime-ing fans to death, dre, scratched disks, rrod, and drm clearly point to it being all about the games.

These games clearly wouldn't be on the console if people had enough sense to not by defective product in DROVES. But yeah, thanks for making my ps3 better.

If MS decides to own up and release a quality product I will buy their new xbox.

This is the first next generation where hardware comes last. Doesn't even make sense.

If a tattoo on the small of the back is a tramp stamp, then "It's about the games in spite of shitty hardware and common sense" is a tard shard.