An Australian technology website is reporting that a new Blu ray add-on for the Xbox 360 could be on retail shelves as soon as 3 months from now. Details follow:

We’re taking this with a grain of salt due to the source of the info, but… Smarthouse, an Australian technology news site, is reporting that Microsoft “insiders” from the US have told them there’s already a Blu ray drive complete and just waiting for final testing. They report that we could see the add-on unit very soon.

The reason we think this report is hokey is simple. It’s the same site that reported they knew there was an internal HD DVD drive in an upcoming Xbox 360 that would have been announced late last year. This seems like someone using a likely guess to make naïve readers take it as fact. And since 90% of gamers who read news on the internet think it is all fact, we expect this rumor to spread like wild fire.

While we do expect a Blu ray add-on at some point, let’s wait for a report from someone who didn’t guarantee an internal HD DVD drive months ago.

Current Blu ray story on Smarthouse

BS internal HD DVD story from Smarthouse

Question is – Is this the same “insider”?

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