Well Microsoft will have to go blu-ray they have no choice, the consumer has no choice only blu-ray exists now as the high def format.

We know for sure that in the next gen consoles after this the next Xbox will definently have a blu-ray drive built in.

I mean its like with Nintendo, whilst everyone went onto CD's they were still doing cartridges, everyone went DVD they went for them tiny little dvd discs.

PS2 helped the DVD but then there was no format fighting against DVD really like beta max and vhs or like recently.

So we have one format and blu-ray will replace DVD since the quality and space is far greater than DVD which is a fact.

I doubt that Microsoft will ever put a blu-ray drive in this gen's Xbox 360 even though if you look at the 2 Japanese RPG's released like blue dragon and lost odyssey more space is needed but the problem is blu-ray is slow at present at reading data and requires installation onto the hard drive to minimise loading times and thats what Microsoft did not want to do.

Microsoft has clearly made mistakes by not taking risks but Sony has taken those risks and its paid off for them.

If you look at some of the screens of FF13 they of course look mindblowing than any of the RPG's on the 360 but thats only 1 game and its taking ages to come out but am sure it will use up a lot of space on the disc.

The stupidist thing sony could do from a buisness prespective would be to give microsoft the right to use bluray on xbox 360 or even the 720 if as anaylisits are pridiciting will come out in 2011 because the money sony would drive from having a console wining the "console war" would outweigh the money they get from microsofts for blu ray drives. Not only is the better quality of blu ray a factor but storage is to considering Hideo Kojima's coments this week about MGS4 not being able to be stored on a blu ray disk (not sure if it' a 50gb or a 25gb ethier way DVD stills only 4GB) as game developers start making more complicated games there going to need more space. look at the difference between the first ps2 games and some of the later ones. know imagine if the developers had another 46gig to play with. Once developers get around the difficulties of developing for ps3 are they going to use a dvd disk restricting them to 4gig or will they use the blu ray disk potenially opening up pandoras box of gaming.