[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by Harry

In order to play HD-DVDs with it, you must pay to buy an external drive which will cost more than a Wii console and like the Xbox 360 core pack.

It's a bit of a hit and miss decision. On the one hand, Sony is stubbornly pushing Blu-Ray upon people when there is little to no evidence that people will rush to ditch their DVDs in favour of HD-Tech disks. On the other hand, games could potentially be the one area in which the higher data capacity of these discs is going to enable something that people actually want. The HD-DVD addon for the 360 will not enable the development of HD-DVD games. DVD streaming in the last generation is pretty much solely responsible for the massive free-form environments seen in games like GTA. Populating an expansive world with the highest quality models and textures would be a nightmare with a DVD alone, or at least highly inefficient (swapping disks, compressing data so that it takes ages to load).