Someone was worried?

AVS haha.

Good thing their games weren't put on HD-DVDs.

Retro announcement: "Atari isn't worried about the Jaguar."

Oops.

"Not like the failure of HD DVD will suddenly drop them below last place."

Ouch, Fahey...major ouch.

HD-DVD would have succeeded if it was integrated into the XBOX 360's design.

That's all fine and dandy that ms aint worried. Now to those people who bought a HD DVD for the 360, are you worried. I'd be pissed if I got a useless piece of hardware. Or maybe you don't and plan to pay again when bluray comes out for the 360...that is if it is possible.

I'm so sick of this crap.

My wife feels so bad that she paid $180 for this thing in January for my birthday. She had no idea the writing was on the wall. She had already opened it and set it up for me so I couldn't return it to Amazon.

Plus, returning a gift could be hazardous to my future children.

KK

@KittenKiller: I'd do it if it's still possible...no way I'm keeping that.

So they havent heard that even Toshiba is dropping HD-DVD.

Microsoft has never cared cause they used XBL VM as a way to destroy HD DVD as well . But they will regret the day the come out early

MSFT could care less, they were just trying to create confusion for their own motives in the DD realm of things.

"we don't care we're trillionares."
plus it has little, to nothing to do with the 360's dvd player....

Goddammit! Didn't I say MS would be the last people on earth to drop HD-DVD? -.-

Might as well give us a Laserdisc peripheral too, MS. Perhaps an 8 track for those more musically-inclined.

Fahey has a knack for making incendiary comments.

Anyways, I would hardly call 1 month of sales enough to justify claiming the xbox is in "last place".

If 360 and PS3 maintained those exact monthly sales it would be around 2 years before the 360 would be in "last place".

Even Sony eventually realized that no one wanted to buy their PSP movies. How long will it take for MS to abandon HD-DVD?

The last sentence made me laugh....
I guess i'm a fanboy....

i can't wait till we have these problems all over again when everyone argues over what file format things should be in to download.

This should be all of MS's official motto: "If it's broke, we'll stand behind it"

because you know, the 360 breaks, every version of windows breaks, etc...

so the Blu-ray addon was just a rumor i guess

Your a cold, cold man Fahey. Icy to the core...

MS Slogan of the year: "If it ain't broke, it must not be one of ours!"

@TinyLightning: *Facepalm*

What corner of the earth breeds you idiots? Do you people really think that, if the 360 had an HD-DVD player, everything would be exactly the same as it is now except for the expanded base of HD-DVD players?

Like, for example, the console WOULDN'T have costed an extra $200 at launch, it WOULND'T have been delayed another year because the tech barely even existed, and it WOULDN'T have been a miserable failure?

It's okay. Nowhere to go but up MS.

So Microsoft is mostly calling the people who bought HD-DVD drives suckers?

If they had made the HD-DVD drive internal on the 360 in the beginning, blu-ray would not have won the format war.

@ brent_w: PS3 outsells the 360 all around the world.
Just in case u didn't know that ;)

@KYLE_ELYK:

especially that huge rush who got it when they dropped the price. Those are the one's I feel sorry for

We will wait until we hear from Toshiba before announcing any specific plans around the Xbox 360 HD DVD player. HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room along with playback of the DVD movies they already own."

Nice Spin MSFT... considering it is dead, finally. You are not giving a choice. You are just afraid of reality. If you gave a real choice, you would have had both BR and HD-DVD players. Not a choice!

The HD-DVD drive isn't suddenly useless... it's not like the hundreds of movies out on HD-DVD (and the titles still to come for the time being) will suddenly melt and the drive explode. Yes, one format won. It was bound to happen... the industry can't support two formats. If you bought early, that's the price you pay. That's the risk you took. enjoy your HD-DVD movies for now and pick up that $75 blu-ray player next year if you feel the need.

Ther's something about microsofts attitude that really annoys me.
The way they are happy to screw consumers over as long as they might make more profit is too obvious.
God help us if DD ever does take off , Microsoft will raep us all.

(and yes, I realize $75 is exaggerating how cheap they'll be ;))

@KittenKiller: I feel for ya. Last month my brother and his wife bought a HD-DVD player for themselves. They called and asked me if I thought our father would like one too. I had to break the bad news to them. (But as I told them, at least you can pick up a bunch of movies cheap if you wish.)

@Uzilover:

I agree. It isn't that BR won; obviously one format is going to be supreme over the other. Its more to do with the approach they always take with their PR, telling everyone to stay calm while the ship is sinking in their smug way.

This applies to more than just HD-DVD, really.

It sounds like they already pretty much know that HD-DVD is dead, and they don't really care about it. That's different from thinking HD-DVD isn't going to die.

Sure the 360 has the biggest library at the moment, but i perfer to think of my gaming system as an investment. I sure as hell don't want to invest in something that breaks for every other person, and i'd rather invest with something with the most power. :)

@RafiRAF: Are you trying to be cute?

The Xbox360 has enough of a lead that the PS3 would need to keep this same sales lead for close to 2 years to match it.

So, as I said, claiming the xbox is in "last place" is terribly inaccurate.

(And yes its a shame that Europe is so blindly attached to a brand name that they would buy a box of shit with Sony scribbled on the side.)

Look on the bright side, now the HD DVD add-on can be turned into a grill!

OH SNAPS! @ final sentence.

But yeah. Microsoft and their usual distractive bullshit PR statements.

"Blah blah blah we offer you DVD playing and HD-DVD is one way we're offering you high definition blah blah blah, LOOK AT OUR LIBRARY OF FIVE MONTH EXCLUSIVES AND HOW OUR CONSOLE ROCKS blah blah blah"

No.

It's;

"We have fucked over everyone who bought our extra attachment failed lies!"

Can't say the second one though, so I guess the first one is a close second.

Videogame consoles are for videogames, I don't buy a system to watch movies or listen to music, those types of entertainment have their own machines. I have a 360 to play videogames, and it does the best job of that. I'll just wait until all movies are distributed via download. There are HD DL rentals on the marketplace, but I want an HD movie store.

Now picture this 36 does digital delivery, hddvd and comming soon a $120 add on of Bluray. Now its does it all with ease. If you dont want BR then dont buy it. If you do then buy it. Now as for the 30K more the PS3 sold last month wow... that make a big dent in the 10 million lead the 360 had on it.

oh and i still love all 3 systems i have. I just like the 360 better for games.

@BD:

So true!

@Uzilover:

yeah it's funny in the same time to see ppl getting mad at sony for nothing actually.... :)
Because the ps3 plays current and next gen media,has free themes and i play online for free cod4 without buying wireless adaptor,without needing to buy batteries or a change station for my controllers everyone is mad at them...

But if sony released mgs4 using the mgs3 just with just upscaled graphics everyone should be happy...

I will never get it... :)

Its official- kotaku is 95% PS3 fanboys.

Fahey with the zinger. Microsoft knows it's dead they just need to "keep face" so to speak.

@The Shape:

You are high!

Not by numbers I mean either!

@MrBionic: You are right. HD-DVDs came out at cheaper price, performed upscaling on regular DVDs, and all of the movies on the market are still playable. MS never said that HCD-DVD will win the format war. And at most they spent $200 and recieved a $30 universal remote control, a movie, and a drive that can be used on the 360 and a PC.

Think about those people who bought the launch BRD players. They spent over $1000 on a player that doesn't even do everything they were advertised to do (because BRD wasn't finalized like HD-DVD was and non profile 1.1 compliant hardware owners are left twisting in the wind.

@The Shape:

nop,kotaku is 110% xbox worshipers....

I don't really understand why Blu-Ray is winning, sure the disks hold 20GB more, but HDDVD players have internet access, bookmark scenes, no region lock, picture in picture, and they cost a lot less.

The HD-DVD has more features and is cheaper...but it's losing b/c it's an ad-on / stand alone. If the 360 would have an HD-DVD bundle, or built into Elite or something, then there wouldn't be this problem.

@BD: How exactly did MS fuck over anyone? They offered a player with the format that they thought was the better format. Whoops, it wasn't the one that won the war... but that's not exclusively Microsoft's fault. It's just the way things go sometimes. As I said earlier, it's not like the HD-DVD player is suddenly rendered useless either. There is still a large library (with still more titles to come for now), and eventually the player will cost next to nothing to pick up... if one is looking for a cheap and easy alternative. I know I'm one that would still consider grabbing it for around $70 or so...

But hey... I guess it's everyone *else's* fault if you decided to choose the wrong format before the war was over.

Once Heroes is announced on Blu-Ray in the UK, then I'll be dissapointed untill then I'll bask in its high-definition glory which Blu-Ray owners cannot. Likewise with Transformers, HD-DVD may be dying but its not dead yet, plus I've found the HD-DVD drive in the 360 to be a LOT better at upscaling my old DVDs than the PS3, so even when new HD-DVDs stop becoming available I'll still have a reasonable DVD upscaler

@RafiRAF: Exactly, let's ignore the entire timeframe where the 360 sold more units and only acknowledge the last month or so when the PS3 actually sold more units worldwide. This is fanboy propoganda at its best.

Let me guess, the future of the 360 is doomed since we all know that everyone who purchased a 360 did so solely for the HD-DVD add-on, right? Too bad the same cannot be said for the PS3 where a good portion of the market is purchasing them to utilize as a Blu-Ray DVD player.

Either way you will see a boost in sales for Sony since more games are coming out that are actually worth purchasing a PS3 to play in addition to Blu-Ray winning the format war. Will it be enough to overtake Microsoft's lead in the console race? Maybe by 2011. (Take that Fahey!)

@steliosco: Nothing?

Have you heard of Sony before?

Deceptive marketing, insulting executives, ROOTKITS? Any of these ring a bell?

The only way Sony could be more anti-consumer is if they came to your door and punched you in the face.