In the first segment of an exclusive Steve Ballmer interview series over at Gizmodo (video at the link), the Microsoft CEO talks about Natal, the blurring of console generations, and the surprising assertion that "you'll be able to get" Blu-ray add-on drives as accessories for the Xbox 360.
When Gizmodo asked Ballmer about adding Blu-ray to the Xbox, he said: "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."
Though he says it with certitude, the timing of any kind of Blu-ray accessory is unclear. Could he have mispoken? Certainly. However, when Gizmodo asked Xbox spokespeople about Ballmer's revelation, they responded: "Our immediate solution for Blu-ray-quality video on an Xbox 360 is coming this fall with Zune Video and 1080p instant-on HD streaming. As far as our future plans are concerned, we're not ready to comment."
Of course, his Blu-ray comment may not mean that Microsoft is coming out with an external drive—he may have just been shooting down the idea that the Xbox 360 will ever have an internal Blu-ray drive, by saying that any Blu-ray the Xbox gets would have to be external. On the other hand he did actually say, "You'll be able to get Blu-ray drives as accessories." Stay tuned to PlanetXbox360.com for more news on this story as it develops, until then I wouldn't run out and pick up Transformers 2 on Blu-ray just yet.
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