How will the death of HD DVD affect Sony and Microsoft in terms of the gaming market?

I know it affects the movie market already. What about games?


I read an article on the internet about disc capacity being too small for 360 but perfect for PS3 because of blu-ray, from a game developer point of view......

How will the death of HD DVD affect Sony and Microsoft in terms of the gaming market?
Over time the effect will be huge.





Games are just now starting to hit the point where they can't make the same game for ps3 and xbox, because of the xbox's space limit.





If hd-dvd had survived, Microsoft could have made the hd-dvd drive a standard feature, instead of an add-on, and solved the problem. There was speculation a while ago that they might. Now it seems they may have had inside info about Toshiba's intentions. Effectively, though, they are trapped. I seriously doubt Sony will allow them to use blu-ray instead, so the best they're gonna be able to do is mult-disc sets, and that will make them look very bad to customers.





It also means that the xbox is no longer an option for watching HD videos, even with the add-on, because there soon will be no place to get videos to watch, even those that were released in the format.


After February 2009 - which most people finally know about, because of all the TV commercials - that will be a big deal in the US market. A lot of people will be buying HDTV for the first time to replace the TV that no longer works. To these people, ps3 will look much better.





ps3 outsold xbox360 worldwide in January so this couldn't have come at a worse time for Microsoft.
Reply:this is really going to boost the PS3 in its favor, since the games are getting more complex with more graphics and more detail dvd are not good enough to hold that information, unlike blu rays which hold ALOT more information in comparison to dvd's the future looks more promising for Sony, though for the mean time Microsoft is doing ok because video game developers are not reached the technology or the man power to push these machines to their limits, just look out, in the long run Sony is going to claim the victory in this one,
Reply:In terms of gaming, I don't think that the death of HD-DVD will affect Microsoft a lot because they don't use HD-DVD discs for it's games, however, it will have an impact on the Xbox 360 HD-DVD attachment. Microsoft is going to loose a lot of money on those Xbox 360 HD-DVD attachments because no one is going to be buying them anymore and they probably weren't that many people buying them in the first place for their 360's.





Microsoft would most likely never install HD-DVD or Blu-Ray into the 360 because the Xbox 360 console would have to be re-released and the price would take a big jump.





As far as future Xbox 360 games and the limitation of standard DVD capacity, I think that future Xbox 360 games will just be coming out on multiple discs, or the PS3 version of a game will be much longer than an Xbox 360 version and/or will have more content.





I read somewhere online that when Unreal Tournament 3 comes to the Xbox 360, it will come out on 2 different discs. One disc will have the main portion of the game/ campaign, and the other disc will have the multiplayer because the entire game couldn't fit on a DVD.





When Sony made the PS3, they were thinking about the future and were looking 7+ years down the road. Microsoft wasn't thinking about the future at all and it will cost them big time in the long run and the limitations of the Xbox 360 are already starting to show with game capacity on standard DVD's.
Reply:as of now it doesn't affect the games of 360 at all because they don't use the HD DVD format in their games.... BUT it might in the future since games are getting more complex and therefore need a more spacious vessel in which it is to be stored.....





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