It is now almost official as Neil Thompson, head of Xbox in UK, confirmed that XBox will not include the Blu Ray player in an update as the company did with the HD-DVD drive. Instead, they are going to put a focus on downloadable content. It is not a real surprise as Xbox Live was pretty successful so far and the inclusion of the Blu-Ray drive in the XBox 360 would mean Microsoft bowing their head even more in favor of the high definition format they did not choose to support. A special emphasis was put by Thompson on the fact that nobody was forced to buy the HD-DVD drive although his personal view on things is that this fact is a poor excuse that appeared for the lack of support. It does seem that Microsoft will be focusing in UK on “digital domain”. The people that bought the drive will not receive a free game, as it was rumored in the past. People will be grumpy but hey, you make the decision for what you purchase, right?