Originally Posted by 5vz-fe
I was thinking that it just allow them to price their consoles more competitively. The probably had an idea that this will turn out like the beta VHS war (unlike the DVD+/-R)
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Yeah, that was their original rational, but I think if they built it in like the PS3, I think they would've sold less consoles but at the same time it would've placed more HD DVD players out there.
For example the PS3, Sony bet the farm on it, and they won out. And regardless of how cheap HD DVD stand alone players got, there were still some 10 million Blu-Ray players out there. And even if just some of them pick up a movie or two, that would still be a lot of movies.
I am still surprised that Toshiba didn't see that WB decision coming at all.
And RC45, there's always that conspiracy theory that MS and Intel wanted to prolong the war as long as possible to let Digital downloads be the main medium.