Xbox Blu-ray Update Rumours Unfounded No BD Drive For Xbox Planned, Ballmer's Comments Seemingly Misunderstood…Again

You may have read reports recently that seem to suggest that Microsoft s
Xbox console looks set to gain a Blu-ray drive " the reports being
based on comments made by MS s Steve Ballmer " but it now seems that MS
are acting to quickly to stem the speculation in claiming that Bellmer s
recent comments have been misunderstood (ah, yes, and not for the first
time).
Apparently when Bellmer was talking about a Blu-ray drives as
accessories " his specific comment was �Well I don't know if we need
to put Blu-ray in there – you'll be able to get Blu-ray drives as
accessories. � – he was not talking about the Xbox, as has been
widely reported, no sir, but, rather he was referring to Blu-ray drives
as accessories for the PC, or at least, according to the Director of
Programming for Xbox Live, asย reportedย here.

So there s no plans for an Xbox BD drive. Period. And indeed, it s not
as if the Xbox actually needs Blu-ray what with the console set to offer
Netflix based streaming of Full HD movies in the very near future (at
which juncture it ll be the first console to offer up this feature)
allowing Xbox users to rent and watch movies way before they are offered
up in BD format.

Seriously, does anyone even care now? Is there anyone out there who
wants to play BD discs who hasn t already availed themselves of ether a
dedicated BD player or a PS3 (we opted for the latter as we suspect a
vast majority of you have)? Do let us know if you re going to loose
sleep over this, won t you?