engadget.com— "Well looky looky here, we landed an Xbox HD DVD drive. We're already all well aware of what it can and can't do; we just know you want the pics of the unboxing"
Nov 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
The HD-DVD drive is already out, not Nov '07. My local EBGames has 8 of them. There are plenty of other games to get excited about...Mass Effect, BioShock, Halo 3, Blue Dragon, Lost Planet to name a few.
I'm an early adopter/gadget freak and I know several others of similar ilk: none of us are considering either HD format right now. I've got scads of HD channels (all the networks, ESPN, Discovery, TNT, INHD, INHD2, etc) and can watch HD movies on demand via my HD/DVR cable box; why in the world would I want to get in the middle of pissing match between Microsoft and Sony? If they'd decided on a single format I would've been first in line, but this fiasco? Screw 'em. I've got more HD than I can catch up with on my DVR and loads of DVDs. When the dust settles, I might consider it, but right now it just doesn't make any sense.
I think one of the big things here is the games would load really slowly on an HD Drive. Even if they had integrated the drive and still put the games on DVD, I'm assuming with the technology that the games still would not have loaded as fast as they do. Like someone else mentioned, you have to install a couple of gigs worth of a game to play it on the PS3. This is to help keep the load times down. Even on a 60 gig drive that will fill up pretty quickly.Also, I for one will not be buying the drive. So whoever complains about the pricing issue, Microsoft did it to keep us from having to pay that much if we don't even care to have the HD player in the first place. So that did help justify my purchase of the 360 over the PS3. Not to mention it was out a lot earlier.
With a PS3, you're *forced* to have the playing capabilities... With the XBOX 360, you can choose whether or not you want to spend $200 on something you may / may not even use...And no, I'm not a XBOX fanboy. Wii FTW.
You know, the Xbox series is cool. iPods are cool. But will you please stop posting pictures about taking something out of a f**king box?? This is about the lamest and worse waste of technology I can think of...I don't even understand how this made it up to the front.
sumizzleNov 10, 2006
The HD-DVD drive is already out, not Nov '07. My local EBGames has 8 of them. There are plenty of other games to get excited about...Mass Effect, BioShock, Halo 3, Blue Dragon, Lost Planet to name a few.
jasimoNov 10, 2006
I'm an early adopter/gadget freak and I know several others of similar ilk: none of us are considering either HD format right now. I've got scads of HD channels (all the networks, ESPN, Discovery, TNT, INHD, INHD2, etc) and can watch HD movies on demand via my HD/DVR cable box; why in the world would I want to get in the middle of pissing match between Microsoft and Sony? If they'd decided on a single format I would've been first in line, but this fiasco? Screw 'em. I've got more HD than I can catch up with on my DVR and loads of DVDs. When the dust settles, I might consider it, but right now it just doesn't make any sense.
smergsNov 10, 2006
I think one of the big things here is the games would load really slowly on an HD Drive. Even if they had integrated the drive and still put the games on DVD, I'm assuming with the technology that the games still would not have loaded as fast as they do. Like someone else mentioned, you have to install a couple of gigs worth of a game to play it on the PS3. This is to help keep the load times down. Even on a 60 gig drive that will fill up pretty quickly.Also, I for one will not be buying the drive. So whoever complains about the pricing issue, Microsoft did it to keep us from having to pay that much if we don't even care to have the HD player in the first place. So that did help justify my purchase of the 360 over the PS3. Not to mention it was out a lot earlier.
doomhammerNov 10, 2006
Dude... It's a box... Who cares if the cellophane is pretty?
doomhammerNov 10, 2006
With a PS3, you're *forced* to have the playing capabilities... With the XBOX 360, you can choose whether or not you want to spend $200 on something you may / may not even use...And no, I'm not a XBOX fanboy. Wii FTW.
catpounce004Nov 10, 2006
You know, the Xbox series is cool. iPods are cool. But will you please stop posting pictures about taking something out of a f**king box?? This is about the lamest and worse waste of technology I can think of...I don't even understand how this made it up to the front.
gwolfNov 11, 2006
I think you need some software that can read the drive and playback the hd dvd format. That shouldn't be too difficult though.