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Subject: What disk will halo 3 ship on?
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Will Halo 3 ship on the new HD-DVD format comming out this year. Several news boards are reporting that xbox games will continue to ship on DVDs as the extra space is not needed yet. Any ideas if halo 3 will need some extra space? if so a lot of people will have to buy add ons for their 360 when they come out.

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  • 05.12.2006 3:01 AM PDT
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HD-DVD is supposedly HD Movie only not for games. Last I heard at least.

  • 05.12.2006 3:17 AM PDT

Yeah I'm pretty sure M$ said that the HD-DVD drive will only be for films. It would be a complete piss-take otherwise (not that that is beyond them)

  • 05.12.2006 3:20 AM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Putting the game on the HD-DVD format would be the worst business move Microsoft has made in years.

HD DVD is only for movies, or so we're told.

  • 05.12.2006 3:20 AM PDT
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if you read most of the reports about HD-DVD they say the ONLY reason why HD-DVD will not be used for games is because the size of games does not require them. however if bunige is going to ship with 1080i they might need more space then on a current DVD. now here is for the conspericy part. they might not tell us a stright answer as HD-DVD players for the 360 are not out yet. and saying that halo 3 will need a HD-DVD player could and would really Hurt 360 sales.

  • 05.12.2006 3:31 AM PDT
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Nothing could hurt 360 sales now that Halo 3's been announced.

Media compression is getting way better so the need for a media disc with that much memory isnt neccessary. The 360 only scales to 1080i, native resolution is 760p.

  • 05.12.2006 3:47 AM PDT