[业界]盖茨谈XBOX360与HD-DVD

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Engadget网站日前放出了一篇CES上比尔盖茨的访谈，盖茨在其中对360主机和软件的未来作了有趣的评论。
   虽然他关于360发售成功的言论更多的是外交辞令性质的，但他坚信，360将在这一世代的游戏机市场上占据足够大的份额。同时他认为总体市场将会继续扩大，微软和他的竞争对手都可能卖出比之前更多的主机。  
     同时盖茨表示，Halo3的发售安排完全由Bungie决定，这个日期也不一定和PS3的发售日紧密联系。
   至于360的硬件方面，盖茨本人对把XB360当作IPTV来使用和360的网络摄像头都没有太多的兴趣，对于CES上发表的外置HD-DVD驱动器，盖茨表示这不会引起360用户群的分裂，游戏开发者依然在DVD-9碟的基础上开发游戏，而微软关于驱动器的任何行动，开发商都会跟上兼容。这段言论看起来暗示了一种可能性：XB360的游戏或许将会出现HD-DVD介质的隐藏/特典内容，而核心游戏依然是DVD上的，可以在所有360上面运行。

Gates Talks Xbox 360 And HD-DVD
Technology website Engadget has published an interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates conducted at last week’s CES, in which he makes a number of interesting comments regarding future Xbox 360 software and hardware.

Although Gates’ answers regarding the success of the Xbox 360 launch were typically diplomatic, he was adamant that the Xbox 360 would have a “substantially higher share in this generation”, while also suggesting that the market was likely to grow with both Microsoft and its rivals selling markedly more consoles overall than the last generation.

As part of the interview, and in a particular reference to comments he made in May, Gates was also keen to indicate that the release date of Halo 3 was entirely up to developer Bungie, and that it was not necessarily tied to the release date of the PlayStation 3 – which is still in any case unknown.

He proved relatively dismissive about the idea of the Xbox 360 being used for IPTV (Internet protocol television), admitting that although it did have the functionality, a dedicated set-up box was still likely to be used in many home situations. Apart from a brief mention of the Xbox 360’s webcam, Gates' most interesting hardware comment was in regards to the HD-DVD external drive announced at CES.

When asked by Engadget whether the HD-DVD drive risked fragmenting the Xbox 360 user base, he was adamant: “There's no fragmentation here. The developers are creating games that run on the DVD-9 format that's in every Xbox, and whatever we do with the drive, they'll all be upwards compatible with that.”

This raises the possibility that games could eventually add extra HD-DVD content, while the core content will always work on the base Xbox 360, but it is equally possible that only movie content will ever run on the HD-DVD format, given the vagueness of Gates' comments and the lack of a definitive Microsoft statement on the matter.

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