Want blu-ray?

Microsoft has told CVG that it considers digital media – and not the Blu-Ray disc – the ‘future of home entertainment’.

Calls for Microsoft to increase the capacity of its games media have grown since Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi said that Capcom had to cut content from the Xbox 360 version of the game due to size restrictions of the DVD format.

However, director of Xbox and Entertainment at Microsoft Stephen McGill said this week:

“We have no plans to adopt [a] Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies.”

McGill’s comments come after the God Of War III developers at Sony Santa Monica praised the 50GB capacity of PS3’s multi-layered Blu-Ray discs.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted earlier this week that there will be revised models of Xbox 360 coming ‘in the future’.
250GB Xbox 360 ‘Super Elite’ models are now available in bundles with games such as Final Fantasy XIII and Forza 3.

Instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies with? yeah with  a total bitrate lower than that of just the sound on a BD.

Disregarding that, not everyone in the world has access to superfast broadband, in fact at  current locations in the UK the only internet they can get is dial-up and were not even going to get into Australia.

Don’t agree whatsoever. There isn’t a good enough network of distribution (globally) for this, only when fibre optic broadband becomes a standard (50-100mb+) across the globe will this become widespread.

Downloading a game the size of God of War 3 would be ridiculous on a 2-8mb connection. Microsoft are just bitter that they backed a donkey in the form of HD DVD.

Look out for MCGs full interview with Microsoft’s Stephen McGill tomorrow.