Taiwan Game Industry Favors MS External HD-DVD Drives for Xbox 360

August 14th 2006 | Games Consoles

Microsoft will launch external HD-DVD drives for its Xbox 360 at a retail price of US$200 by Christmas of this year, and Taiwanese games developers and gaming services providers indicated this this is a smart marketing strategy as compared with Sony’s adoption of built-in BD drives for its PlayStation 3 (PS3).

External drives have more flexibility than built-in models, the companies pointed out, while adding that despite BD having a much larger storage capacity than HD-DVD, pre-installation of BD drives may decrease the market competitiveness of PS3 units.

DigiTimes

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Taiwan Game Industry Favors MS External HD-DVD Drives for Xbox 360
Published in: Games Consoles on 2006-08-14