HD-DVD: Down For The Count?

This morning online movie rental giant Netflix announced that it would be going BluRay exclusive. If that wasn't enough, later in the day Best Buy announced that it would also be recommending BluRay as the format of choice. This might be the end of the road for the HD-DVD format which has been struggling in the past few months after several major movie studios including Disney and MGM decided to support BluRay exclusively.

If HD-DVD does in fact die, the PS3 will definitely solidify it's BluRay drive as a key selling point. It's also unclear what this will mean for the Xbox 360's HD-DVD Player add-on. Will Microsoft release a BluRay add-on? Will Nintendo go with BluRay in the future? Although this format war may be coming to an end, it will be interesting to see what kind of an impact it will have on the future of gaming.