m0dus said:
Because, according to Peter Moore, THAT would be embroiling themselves in the format war. At least, that is how they percieve it, I think.
Quite the opposite, if they allowed the choice of either format it would make them purely neutral in this war and remove them from taking sides, something they have clearly done.
Unless you mean that by only supporting one, in cloud-cuckoo-peter-moore-land no format war exists
That by allowing the choice of two, the war would be played out on the 360 front too. But look - that war is happening one way or another in the real world, and currently it doesn't look like the choice MS is allowing is the winning one. I'm sure there are 360 owners now who'd much prefer to pick up a BD drive than a HD-DVD one given that choice.
(Of course, we all understand
why MS isn't providing that option, but EGM is looking at it from a pure, naive, consumer-orientated viewpoint, which is fair enough. And of course, Sony doesn't offer any choice either here, but they haven't been parroting on about 'choice' in relation to HD movies like MS has. EGM just picked them up on that 'choice' mantra on different level, the choice the consumer has once they do decide they want HD movies.)