Gamestop halts 360 HD DVD trade ins

[Hatchetforce]

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/853/853070p1.html

February 19, 2008 - GameStop this morning confirmed that the major gaming retailer will no longer accept HD DVD items for trade-in. That includes used HD discs or Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on drives. The policy – which virtually ensures that your additional HD drive will become a dinosaur in your own living room – takes effect today.

As for Microsoft's response to the demise of HD DVD, the company released this statement:

"We do not believe the recent reports about HD DVD will have any material impact on the Xbox 360 platform or our position in the marketplace. As we've long stated, we believe it is games that sell consoles and Xbox 360 continues to have the largest next-gen games library with the most exclusives and best selling games in the industry. We will wait until we hear from Toshiba before announcing any specific plans around the Xbox 360 HD DVD player. HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room along with playback of the DVD movies they already own."

[GRIN_Wolfsong]

Interesting.

[FA sear]

Hmm, ouch, another nail in the coffin.

[Sup]

One of many, toshiba just pulled out of HD-DVD too. Format war is pretty much dead and buried.

It has pretty much absolutely nothing to do with gaming, though aside from sony's nonsensical hyping bluray for games (which is a non issue even if it were true, hd-dvd was only for movies on the 360) but i guess if you're a big movie watcher it's news.