[Gaming News] Blue Ray drive for the Xbox 360?

It has been making the rounds as a rumor for quite a while now, ever since the HD DVD format died I believe, but when a highly reputable and trusted site such as Gamasutra reports on it, there's obviously something here. The Xbox 360 might at last be getting a Blu-Ray drive of its own, like its competitor, the Playstation 3. The fact that it's reportedly in development by Toshiba, the company responsible for the HD DVD makes this whole thing rather deliciously ironic.

It remains to be seen if this will be used for anything more than playing movies and whether or not this is related to the incident with Id's Rage, as optional peripherals (especially the ones that cost so much) rarely become a mainstray as far as gaming consoles go. In fact, the only example that comes to mind is the 4MB Expansion Pack memory chip for the Nintendo 64, which was used in several games with varying success, but even then Nintendo had to ship it with Donkey Kong 64 rather than risk having a percentage of their customers unable of playing the game. Which of course meant that some unlucky bastards like yours truly ended up with two Expansion Packs.

Such things tend to get messy, in other words.

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Figures that on the first "official" day of my new blog, I come down with the flu and as a result my mind's too messy to write a proper review/article. Oh, well.