Xbox 360 NOT Getting Blu-Ray Player

October 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 pm | Views: 857 | 16 Comments

Today, Major Nelson made it clear that the Blu-Ray drive that Steve Ballmer talked about was for the PC. Major Nelson had this to say,

During an interview yesterday, Steve Ballmer was asked about Blu-Ray and the Xbox 360. I wanted to clear something up. Steve was referring to Blu-Ray accessories for the PC. As we have said in the past, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360

Major Nelson also talks about how the Xbox 360 will be the “first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies.” Thanks for clearing that up Major Nelson. We can now resume our lives of streaming HD content on 360.

We Have No Plans For Blu-Ray On 360 [Major Nelson Thanks, Pyro!]

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16 Comments

LastRide
October 26, 2009
Reply #1

that sucks would of like a blue ray player for the 360 since i dont touch my ps3 any more

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JesusHMacy
October 23, 2009
Reply #2

yeah who didn’t see that coming, though it would have been a nice touch for the 360

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theGazettEchick
October 23, 2009
Reply #3

thats kind of lame. i mean why not make some kind of cheap bluray player for the 360? oh well though. glad i wasnt looking forward to one.

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Mortalized
October 23, 2009
Reply #4

Well you can’t have everything

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Punkovision
October 22, 2009
Reply #5

good i rather have my 360 in hd playing….besides have not seen any blue ray movies in awhile…i mean it might just be me but i like how my 360 is now sooo i don’t want to change it >_>

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conkerbunker
October 22, 2009
Reply #6

thank god this is out of the way now

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rsqviper
October 22, 2009
Reply #7

I think what’s most important here is the fact that I WAS RIGHT!

=p

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KR3W619
October 22, 2009
Reply #8

I wouldn’t have really cared if the 360 got Blu-Ray or not.

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DeadStretch
October 22, 2009
Reply #9

well I guess that answers that question.

I’m still with my standard definition, lol.

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turinx
October 22, 2009
Reply #10

Thank da’ Lord!!!! This didn’t make sense to me from MS side. Unless it was going to improve gaming, which it wasn’t, it didn’t make any sense. The problem with the media/format that right now is DVD’s size limitations, and unless MS was going to start putting games on Blu Ray, which it wasn’t, I didn’t see this happening. MS would be better off going with a different format such as Holographic Versatile Disc, or something else as it’s future format. But according to them the future is digital download so who knows.

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mugen01
October 22, 2009
Reply #11

I knew it was too good to be true.

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philip_davies
October 22, 2009
Reply #12

that still sucks cause Microsoft made a big mistake when they supported HD DVD where that failed fanstaicly good
i think they should support blue-ray and we know the ps3 is one of the cheapest blue ray player around.
i still think Microsoft should re consider but keep the costs low as possible which would be a very hard job to do

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- philip_davies
  October 22, 2009
  Reply #13
  
  just forget you can rip 360 game while at the moment ps3 Blue ray games so far not have been cracked or riped so there is a good side tp crack down on pirating and how long the ps3 been out 3 years so far not 1 game has been cracked which its an achievement by itself
  
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Tovan
October 22, 2009
Reply #14

I guess this makes more sense on Sony’s end, allowing it to go to the PC won’t really oppose the PS3 much.

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xDSJxPyro
October 22, 2009
Reply #15

I want to know more about this “Instant On” 1080p video. I don’t see how it will be instant, 1080p takes a ton of bandwidth. They have told us about this, but not shown us anything. I want to know more Major Nelson.

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- Tovan
  October 22, 2009
  Reply #16
  
  Here’s a little something that Giantbomb did regarding the instant 1080p video. Pretty interesting, worth a quick read thorough.
  
  http://www.giantbomb.com/news/eyes-on-the-xbox-360s-instant-1080p-streaming/1739/
  
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