Next Xbox; If not blu-ray, Then what?
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No, it isn't. Look them up on Wikipedia. They already made a HD DVD addon for the 360.epikAXE said:
No. http://www.amazon.co.uk/TDK-BD-R-50GB-Blu-ray-T78009/dp/B0018RIKQ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305729293&sr=8-1Dys said:
I can buy 4 50GB recordable blu-ray disks right now commercially for £12.35 - that's 0.06175p per GB, and those aren't even the stamped, un-recordable disks the industry would use which are going to be a fraction of that price.
USB Flash memory comes in at around £1 per GB, scaling pretty evenly up to 32GB then getting more expensive.
That's 16x as expensive if you were doing it from home, let alone the massive savings the industry will get on disks which won't be available in anything like the strength on flash memory.
One day though - one day cartridges will return!
They could just develop a standalone disc format. and give the drive blu ray (possibly) and dvd functionality.
I personally think they're going to wait a little while until digital distribution is more used then just release a discless console. or at least one with a massive hard drive and a better online store.
I personally think they're going to wait a little while until digital distribution is more used then just release a discless console. or at least one with a massive hard drive and a better online store.
Blu-ray. Though with the board of directors such strong competitors against Microsoft in so much, its gonna hike the price plenty
My intial assumptions as to what a blu ray disc costs to produce were considerably higher than they actually are, even so the cost of flash memory is getting crazy cheap. Things like licensing (reportedly $8000 per film/game to have unlimited 'prints' of it, admittedly from a less than reliable source) drives the cost of using the medium up. Flash memory shouldn't be even remotely near £1 per GB, if they can manage to sellSD cards like this then I can't see the cost of production for other forms of flash memory to be especially high.Wicky_42 said:
I don't see too many companys selling flash memory at less than a dollar per GB, but I also don't see any reason for distributer to sell for less than what the market is happy to pay (which is notably more). I know the whole story with NAND not dropping price as predicted and there not being a huge drop in production costs and all of the justification for why it's so expensive at the consumer level, but I just struggle to accept that such a new technology, that is (at least in my eyes) yet unproven to be cheaper. I see no reason why those few games that do not fit on a DVD disc to combine a DVD disc with game content stored on a portable hdd or some form of flash media.BloodSquirrel said:
Look, ultimately I could be completely wrong about the costs, but I'm still somewhat doubtful about blu ray discs being the most economically viable choice. There's still the competition from digital distribution and simply storing games on hard disc and, quite frankly, I wouldn't expect microsoft to adopt bluray if their next best alternative was posting individual lines of code.
That only works in a monopoly, or in an oligopoly with price fixing behind the scenes. The flash market is pretty competitive right now, especially with the number of players trying to get in on the ground floor of the SSD market.Dys said:
Even if MS can sell flash cards for ½ the price they?re currently going for, that?s still $16 for a 32 GB disc.Dys said:
To put digital distribution into perspective- with current Canadian bandwidth caps, it is cheaper to transfer data by buying hard drives, writing the data, and mailing them across the country.
So far, blu-ray is by far the most economical solution that has been presented. The only other option I see is if MS can find some cheaper kind of ROM than flash lying around (since their cards only need to be written to once, something that flash can?t get away with).
Huh? That's an 8 GB card for $13. That's almost $2 per GB. And it's on Ebay.Dys said:
Not entirely, there's a lot of companies that have spares so....there you go.Dulcinea said:
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Oh and wouldn't it be funny if they just continue with what they're using now. I can see it now. Gears of War 4 will be on 4 disc, Red Dead Redemption 2 on 10, FF15 on 15, and LA Noir 2 on 20...lol
I do believe the one that made the first BDD was Toshiba and they supplied most of the parts for the PS3, so I doubt they're in the business of not making millions of dollars from Microsoft.Dulcinea said:
OT:More than likely Digital Distribution.
On a side note, Remember the format war? When everyone was bitching and saying that HD-DVD was going to win because it was cheaper? Yeah, that was fun.
And the disks look awesome. =Dwillsham45 said:
Discs will probably stick around for a while, though I can see the appeal of much tighter controlled digital distribution to all consoles.
I would not buy that, i prefer to have a physical copy of a game so I actually own it, download should always be an option but then so should physical mediaZac Smith said: