the xbox 360 is just 1 year and 3 months old and Microsoft is already making a new one, hmmm... seems to me Microsoft is making the next xbox fast in the event that the Wii and PS3 start dominating the market, that way it'll just release it's new machine early which will catch Nintendo and Sony off guard and in my opinion screw over 360 owners as Microsoft ditches the 360 infavoir of the new one just as the ditched the xbox in favour of the 360, this is just my speculation, after all we don't know how far into R&D Microsoft actually is, for all I know they could just be at the beginning and just brainstorming ideas and such.



In any case I still think it's to early for Microsoft PR to be talking about such things.

Trust me, Sony is think about the PS4, Nintendo is thinking about the Poo (sequal to the Wii), so what's wrong with MS thinking about the Xbox 360. It doesn't mean they have lost interest in the current gen consoles, it just part of the business to stay one step ahead.



The reason MS is talking up a longer life span of the 360 and throwing out a possible year for the next 360 is to reassure 360 owners that their beloved box wont be killed off as quicker as the Xbox1. The reason the Xbox1 was killed off was because MS didn't own the licensing for the GPU + CPU and couldn't effectively price cut. They were still making a loss estimated around US$100 per unit when it was discontinued and they were never going to be able to sell a Xbox1 without loss. They had no choice but to focus on the 360. This time around they own all the hardware, can make cost cutting revisions and competition effectively on manufacturing costs with the other consoles. The life span of the 360 will be longer because MS wouldn't have to take a lost per unit when a new Xbox hits the market, and will probably still be making a profit per unit like sony is with the PS2.



Make sense numb nuts?

thinking about a system more powerful than xbox 360 gives me the chills.