Chinese site DigiTimes reports that Microsoft won’t be releasing the Xbox360 HD-DVD add-on in Asia. According to Microsoft Taiwan, there is no market for the HD-DVD player in the Asian region,

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.

The HD-DVD add-on will launch later this year in North America and Europe, rumored to cost around $200.

Read (DigiTimes, via Kotaku)