No HD-DVD games for Xbox 360 -- ever ever?

By Paul Miller

GameSpot is spreading this juicy rumor around, and it seems like it might just stick: the
Xbox 360 supposedly will have no support for HD-DVD based games, even if (or when) a HD-DVD drive is released for the console. Apparently this little tidbit slipped out of Microsoft's own Yoshihiro Maruyama, their Xbox operations chief in Japan, in an interview with Famitsu Xbox, and though Bill Gates has hinted at the possible inclusion of HD-DVD for the 360 later on, it looks now like that's going to be a movies only affair. A rep with Microsoft declined to comment, and it seems unlikely because they'd just be shooting themselves in the foot here, but if this pans out it would mean Sony will have the upper hand in high capacity gaming discs for this console generation,
especially late in the product cycle when those puny DVDs start to look positively CDian.

[Via Joystiq]

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