Een tijdje geleden leek het er nog op dat Microsoft open zou staan voor een eventuele Blu-Ray speler voor de Xbox 360. Nu lijkt het erop dat de woorden van Peter Moore fel terug genomen worden door Microsoft zelf. In een statement dat we vinden op Mercury News gaat men namelijk in op de woorden van Microsoft’s topman:
As we’ve said before, we’re confident that HD-DVD will bring the excitement of high definition movies to the consumer faster and at a greater value. We believe that consumers have signaled what format they want to enjoy high definition DVD and we’re going to follow them down that path. The question of whether Xbox 360 has the flexibility to adapt to consumers’ needs is a different issue entirely. Xbox 360 is a future-proofed system – one that allows us to add features as consumers demand them – as evidenced by our offering of the HD DVD drive as an accessory. Current reports indicating that we have a back-up plan, which includes Blu-Ray support are incorrect. At this point, we’re fully committed to HD-DVD and have absolutely no plans to support other optical formats.
