New XBOX 360 with HD-DVD in the Spring?

[mwgiii]

Remember all that talk about future Xbox 360 revisions possibly including an HD-DVD player as standard? Today, Japan's Jiji News service reports that Microsoft is planning such an update for as early as next year!

Story continues here:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/675/675764p1.html

 

[mwgiii]

Its official.

MS will release HD-DVD external drive by end of 2006.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/678/678884p1.html

 

[Purogamer]

But it's for movies only AT THIS TIME...I love how fanboys are already jumping all over that. If Microsoft is presented with a valid reason to use HD-DVD for games they will...

Wonder how many GB's a game like Call of Duty 2 is using anyways...Very few Xbox games were more than 3gb...Sony versions of the same game were routinely 4.37gb or bigger because of all the junk data sony fills discs with...