New Xbox coming or something?

[Breetai]

Average console age is 10+ years.

What were you smoking when you thought that one up?

Did you consider the NES relevant in 1995, or the Genesis relevant in 1998? How about the SNES is 2001? The PS1 in 2004? The N64 is 2006?

[d123456]

Nah. Microsoft would never stop supporting a successful product (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP) only to release, another prematurely (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista) just to make more money from it's costumers

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Is this ownage? haha
m$ are crazy who knows what they think/want, think what they want, want to be thinking about. The idiot with the biggest mouth who does some lame ass research will probably gets his way within m$.

[superlarz]

I thiink this gen will last a little longer than previous. Lets face it, all of the consoles are still selling extremely well, and with the extended development cycle of games now, the gaming industry is going to be moving a bit slower in the leap to a new generation.

Also, we havent heard or even seen a prototype of a new console, and usually these things are announced and shown to the public over a year before they are released.

[otaku]

They could do it like they do with their OS the difference is you can get windows 7 as cheap as 50 bucks and there is a big difference between the computing worlds tolerances and the console worlds I think especially in this economic climate they'd have trouble selling another console to people who've already blew hundreds on the 360 personally I've spent nearly 1000 dollars on their hardware in the last 3 years or so on my second 360 now and will not by a replacement for at least 2 more years. They better not pull this shit as far as I'm concerned the only company that should do a new system is nintendo and really they should only do an upgrade. Upgrades are fine but no new platforms. This cycle should be a good 6-7 years at least. They make money off the games anyway not the hardware.

[BigTinz]

They're making room for all the PSP Go games. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there!

ahkekekeke

[HellHammer]

Maybe not a 'brand new' Xbox... but newer?...

Kotaku
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engadget

[Flak Beard]

I noticed in the last week local Gamestops, Target, and Walmart have all but phased out a couple of rows of Xbox 360 games... Just an observation but it just feels suspicious.

Come on dude, I know you're not that ignorant to the current game market. The 360 has plenty life left in it, with quite a future lineup announced less than a month ago at E3.

What you're seeing is 360 software losing shelf space at retail to Wii games. This is happening at Targets and Walmart due to them being more family focused stores. My local Target has at least triple the amount of Wii software in stock compared to both PS3 and 360. Most of it is shovelware, but it is selling. I don't know what Gamestop you visited, but all the ones I've been to in the last couple months have a huge 360 section.

Maybe not a 'brand new' Xbox... but newer?...

Kotaku
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Interesting. If it’s smaller, cooler and (most importantly) quieter... I’ll consider upgrading.

[ZeroAX]

Interesting. If it’s smaller, cooler and (most importantly) quieter... I’ll consider upgrading.

and cheaper. when the 360 gets to the 100 euro mark, I might buy one.....for banjo kazzooie. man i hate a system without good platform games.

[elvis]

What were you smoking when you thought that one up?

Did you consider the NES relevant in 1995, or the Genesis relevant in 1998? How about the SNES is 2001? The PS1 in 2004? The N64 is 2006?

If a console is in active sale, and has new titles for it, then it's "relevant". Not too hard to figure out, really. Bleeding edge gamers are the vocal minority, which is something people tend to forget (with a little help from the media).

(And to answer your question, yes I do think all of them were relevant at said points in time. I still think they're "relevant" today, but what do you expect from an avid retro gamer on a retro gaming website?)

I say again: this generation of consoles is only just starting. Anyone who honestly thinks we'll see another Microsoft or Sony console in the next 2 years is high.

[ZeroAX]

There's no way sony is coming out with a new console, for at least 5-6 more years. That bloody thing cost them a fortune to develop, it still sells for a high price (and in my opinion, for such an expensive machine, it's sales are outstanding, and only fanboys can't see the big picture (twice the price, only 10mil difference in userbase, which was the difference the 360 and ps3 had, when the ps3 launched)), and we have still to see most of the famous franchises make their way to it (ffs 3 years into the machine and still no FF)


now I wouldn't be totally surprised, if MS came out with a new console, in the next 2-3, mostly because, in their frantic rush, to outsell sony, they have dropped the price of the 360 too much. Instead of slowly dropping the price, over the span of this generation, so to maximize profits from hardware, they thought it would be more important that they had a bigger userbase than sony. well they DO have a bigger userbase than sony, but it's not that big to be worth, losing all they money they could be making if they sold it for 300 euro instead.

So I can see MS coming with a new console, now that they have a brand name, so they price it for more, and don't make the same mistake again