It has just been confirmed, that Microsoft is currently working with Divx, Inc. to bring the popular Divx MPEG-4 video format to the Xbox 360. However, Microsoft also said that this Divx project for Xbox 360 is currently not in their high priority list. Right now, an unmodded Xbox 360 can only support video formats such as : WMV, HD WMV, H.264 and non Divx MPEG-4.
Kevin Hell, Divx, Inc.'s CEO said that Microsoft has more restrictions and requirements surrounding any software that runs on it's Xbox 360 than Sony with it's Playstation 3, so the Xbox 360 Divx project is on a lot slower pace compared to it's Playstation 3 brother.
Hell also said that with the latest 2.00 firmware update, the Divx video format support has already been partially implemented on Playstation 3, and the full Divx support will come with the next Playstation 3 firmware update. However on Xbox 360, the release date for the Divx support is still unknown.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Is it just me, or does Kevin Hell have a videogame/comic book name? I mean, really, who's named 'Hell'?
That aside, this confirms pretty much what we had already guessed.
I realy need DivX playback on my xbox360. I wonder why this didn't happen a while ago?
I remember just a few days ago there was an announcement that Sony had setup the same deal for the PS3 and everyone was saying its because they want to pirate HD-DVDs or something.
I can only imagine what they be saying about this.
"Kevin Hell, Divx, Inc.’s CEO said that Microsoft has more restrictions and requirements surrounding any software that runs on it’s Xbox 360 than Sony with it’s Playstation 3, so the Xbox 360 Divx project is on a lot slower pace compared to it’s Playstation 3 brother"
..Or in other words. We've only just learned that its coming for PS3, so we've only just started to copy the move!
I like the 360, and love playing its games, but I would be far happier to see it innovate, rather than constantly immitate. Copying the other guys moves is dull - forget buzz contollers, eye camera or Wii controls, come up with a good idea of your own for goodsakes! :)IMHO! :)
AGAIN MICROSOFT COPY CATS FROM SONY! Pathetic fool! DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
JUST DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!