Cái này chỉ là tin đồn mà thôi , microsoft chưa hề công bố chính thức gì cả . Vì nếu ổ HD-DVD bắt buộc người chơi phải mua thì sẽ không hợp lý cho những ai đã mua máy từ tháng 11/2005 cho đến đầu năm 2007 . Tất cả vẫn chỉ là tin đồn mà thôi :
As it stands, Microsoft plans to offer HD-DVD as an external drive for Xbox 360, offering only movie playback. Microsoft has claimed that the capacity of standard DVD format is good enough for now in terms of videogaming.
Incredibly, the sources are suggesting that the new Xbox 360 could be launched by mid-2007, although this seems like an extremely rapid turn-around.
This is not the first time rumors of an internal HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 have risen. As recently as June, reports across the Internet cited Toshiba Australia executive Mark Whittard as saying, "I would imagine that there are plans in place to put an HD-DVD drive internally in future revisions of the product. [Microsoft is] not speaking about it publicly at the moment but I would expect them to do that and fairly soon."
However Microsoft global marketing team member Cesar Menendez promptly relayed a denial via the Gamerscoreblog: “ saw a few stories online about an Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive: not true. We have no plans to release an Xbox 360 with an internal HD-DVD. What we showcased at E3 was an external HD DVD drive, and we're sticking with that.”