What disc format could the next gen Xbox use?

Either blu ray or red ray (i think that's what it's called)93soccer

"Red ray" was HD DVD

well panisonic and sony are the only ones who make br discs so i think its just gonna be Digital Dist. panisonic will provide nintendo with BR because they are in a great partnership

While the media version of HDDVD is dead, there are some commercial data uses that the format is being used for. So in a way, it still is possible for the 360 to put games on it, but highly unlikely.

u guys may be surprised but there was a prototype of the new xbox called the xbox phoenix. there was no information of what it did or ne thing like that but i guess they were trying to experiment of what they could next gen . google it im sure u will find something on it

Personally I would like to see everything go digital, but this won't happen for a large number of reasons. First of all, games will take up more and more space each console gen, so calculating just how big the console's harddrive should be when it is where all of the games are actually stored would be difficult, especially early on. The people that work at all of the companies that help make the discs would be out of jobs. The developers would lose a lot of money because only people with Internet access would have access to games. The amount of bandwidth it would take to download the large files all across the country would be too much, I've been told- apparently our Internet just can't handle it here yet. And let's not forget that if games become more easily accessible we will hear stories about game addicts spending every last dollar of their paycheck on games, and about people spending all of their time playing games, which I am tired of having shoved down the gaming communities' throat. Suffice it to say, right now going all digital in the game industry is a pretty lose-lose situation.

I guess blu-ray would be the assumed choice. It's what movies and tv shows are being put onto now, it has a lot of space, it is the standard. But maybe Microsoft will surprise us and use a cartridge or chip format with no moving parts.

[QUOTE="93soccer"]Either blu ray or red ray (i think that's what it's called)stumunro

"Red ray" was HD DVD

Yeah TC you wish you could have Blu Ray you wish

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[QUOTE="spazzx625"]Although many people wrongly believe Sony own all the rights to Blu-Ray, the format is owned collectively by several companies... Considering Blu-Ray is quickly becoming standard, I would be surprised if they go with any other format.DJ_Magneto

Yeah, what's with that...just go look at the BDA. Microsoft has so many potential allies in it.

HP, Dell, Hitachi, Philips and I think they own part of Sun Microsystems....only Apple could pose the most opposition.

Even Sony has to buy OS liscenses from Microsoft, so if Microsoft got denied, Sony would be in one hell of a tight noose for their computer branch:)

Microsoft just needs to work into improving the DVD format they're currently working with and then use Blu-Ray on their next system...unless by then we are overtaken by DLC entirely, which they have been moving toward, but that's unlikely.

I'd have to agree with all of the above.