Taiwanese digital newspaper, Digitimes, has posted a story that claims the HD DVD addon for the Xbox 360 will retail for US$200.
Microsoft will launch external HD-DVD drives for its Xbox 360 at a retail price of US$200 by Christmas of this year, and Taiwanese games developers and gaming services providers indicated this this is a smart marketing strategy as compared with Sony's adoption of built-in BD drives for its PlayStation 3 (PS3).
External drives have more flexibility than built-in models, the companies pointed out, while adding that despite BD having a much larger storage capacity than HD-DVD, pre-installation of BD drives may decrease the market competitiveness of PS3 units.
Planet Xbox 360 is not treating this story as confirmation of the official pricing for the add on drive.
Via: Digitimes
