Bad news for Asian XBox 360 owners. DigiTimes has reported that the external HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 will not be available in Asia.
Microsoft plans to launch external HD-DVD drives for Xbox 360 consoles in North America, around the end of this year, but the drive will be not be made available in Asia, according to Microsoft Taiwan.
This is because the external HD-DVD drive is designed to play back movies pre-recorded on HD-DVD blue-laser discs, and the supply of HD-DVD movies in Asia is not sufficient to support the sale of such hardware, for the time being at least, Microsoft Taiwan pointed out.
If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes.