valen200 said:
Well with the Xbox to 360 transition Microsoft just quit making the system to encourage upgradeing. Now this gen they have performed much better overall, so maybe they won't try something similar but I do think it is possible Microsfot might try to force an upgrade again by stopping the 360 production. I could see the 360 thriving like the Ps2 at 100 dollars for several years, if microsoft felt inclinded to do so. otherwise I agree with what you said.
Ps2s are still on the shelf after all this time. $100 dollar systems with a good library can fair quite well.
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I don’t know ... my expectations for Microsoft are a little different.
While Microsoft could go the opposite direction, I think it would make sense for Microsoft to try to encourage developers who are not fully committed to the next generation of systems to treat the XBox 360, the PC, and their next generation system as a single platform. Most games at the moment already have higher detailed graphical assets and more advanced effects being produced for them because they’re being designed for the XBox 360 and being released for the PC as well. If Microsoft convinces developers that they should release all of their XBox 360 games to their next generation system (with higher detailed assets and better graphical effects while running at a better frame-rate at a higher resolution) they could build a library that is made up of the definitive version of most games without requiring developers to fully migrate to their system. The challenge with this is that Microsoft (and a handful of committed developers) would have to produce the content that really drives sales for 12 to 24 months before other developers were willing to make the switch.