Comments on: Xbox 360 Ultimate Put on Hold Due to Warner Bros. Backing Blu-Ray?

By: marc

marc — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:31:19 +0000

i have a feeling that it does exist (After all M$ do lie a lot) but now they’ll back down and/or fix all xbox 360’s current problems

By: zeek

zeek — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:41:17 +0000

Sorry, but Microsoft says the Ultimate /never existed/

By: SpiralGray

SpiralGray — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:35:15 +0000

Chris is a small town in Texas? I don’t get it.

By: Chris is a MORAN

Chris is a MORAN — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:27:45 +0000

CHRIS IS A FUCKING MORAN!!!!

By: ChaosBahamut

ChaosBahamut — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:17:23 +0000

The benefit is that chances have grown that a winner will soon be decided (probably in Blu-Ray’s favor), and having 2 HD movie disc formats is a bad thing for us consumers. 1 = no chance of missing out on movies because we didn’t go for the other.

By: Cypress

Cypress — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:01:31 +0000

I’m pretty sure the ‘Ultimate’ never existed. Although I am surpised at Warner’s decision. I remember seeing on some site that Warner clamied to switch “for the benefit of the consumer” but how is it to our benefit if we have to pay for the more expensive Blu-ray drives. Theres also no difference in the picture quality so I don’t know what they’re on about

By: SpiralGray

SpiralGray — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:37:58 +0000

“Did the SKU even exist to begin with?”

I’m putting money on the answer to that question being “no.” I think it was a rumor dreamed up by a fanboy or the media. Of course the internet got hold of it and that was all she wrote.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:37:02 +0000

The rumors of an ultimate 360 were either
a) a complete fabrication made by an attention seeking web site or
b) a deliberate spoiler aimed at making any smaller announcements into an anti-climax.
I don’t usually go for the conspiracy theories without proof so i guess that makes ‘a’ the most likely but who knows

By: StephanoHedz

StephanoHedz — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:37:08 +0000

I would be a little leery to go to a total download movie system. I can just see my Hard drive messing up, as they do from time to time, and I lose out on all the things that I had saved. Not appealing to me in the least.

By: ChaosBahamut

ChaosBahamut — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:31:29 +0000

I believe that either the 360 Ultimate never existed, or it does exist but doesn’t have a built in HD-DVD drive as MS and Bill Gates himself have repeatedly said that’s NOT gonna happen.

By: somewhat

somewhat — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:10:55 +0000

Back in the day, the BetaMax/VHS thing made a big difference in the visual quality, but VHS was cheaper. But this HD-DVD/Blu-Ray thing is a bit harder to swallow, as the visual quality to a layman’s eyes isn’t all that different. So why will one win out over the other this time around ?

By: lorgar

lorgar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:05:17 +0000

I thought Microsoft’s whole plan was to go digital anyway, so HD-DVD drives would have been rather frivolous in their eyes correct? And i hardly think disk size will be an issue anytime soon for them so theres no real need to switch from it anyway.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:44:08 +0000

I feel fully confident in saying that Xbox Ultimate never existed. Maybe there will be some more beefed-up SKU down the line, but I don’t think there has ever (at least not recently) been a plan to have an integrated HD DVD player.