The only reason the 360 wouldn't be around in 2010 is if Microsoft decided to discontinue it before then. The very fact that they've got games planned to come out in 2010 on the 360 (hell, Final Fantasy 13 will probably be a 2010 game) suggests that MS has a bit more of a long term strategy with the system than to cut it loose within the next 18 months.

In fact, they could afford more aggressive price drops, especially in the US, if they so wanted.

The 360 isn't doing great, but it's the worst time of the year for the system and all of its big games are due out in September and later. The system will struggle in July and August, then pick up sales significantly for the holiday season.

In the US, the 360 is still the cooler system to own.

The 360 is also still selling software like gangbusters.  Sure, the attach ratio is helped dramatically by the low sales of the system, but it still does fantastic selling software.

future Xbox360 60gb + 1 year of live gold fee = same price as the future 80gb PS3.

We'll see who will fell off first. MS is getting some good exclusive deals and breaking some of the Sony's exclusives, and overall MS seems most activee of the three at the moment.

I would rather play next two mass effect installments than new FF, but now ppl can have both on MS. Altho it cannot compete with GT, Forza is pretty solid. And so on.

I think there are too little arguments against the fact that X360 simply is the better deal than PS3 today - price is on it's side, i would dare to say it has better exclusives, and has the current buzz because of E3 and constant flow of new announcements.

By 2010 developers will be squeezing up against the 360s small storage capacity and doing everything on one BD disc will be more feasible.

Also in 2010 the PS3 will be atleast 15million ahead in sales.

It costs 50million for Microsoft to bribe developers currently that the PS3 is 5 million behind. Think how much Microsoft will have to bribe developers when PS3 is ahread by 10-15million.

We all know Microsoft last console did a 4 year flop.  It wouldn't suprise me if this one went down the same road due to my comment above.  PS1 and PS2...16 years of success.

I just got my 360 a week ago. After playing for 6 hours, it wasn't running very hot... the back fan felt about as warm as my forehead, the same temperature it felt after 20 minutes of play. My oblivion game has frozen up, but the music continues and I can still axcess the XBM or whatever it is called to return to the baldes/shut down console, and it has happened 5 minutes into playing, so I am asuming it is the game and not RRoD.

Also, I am thinking that 360 is $300 now, and then in august it goes back up to $350, and then in October they will have a $50 price cut across the board... may be a $100 for the elite becuase it is very overprice imo. This way they get people itching for more memory/cheaper price to jump onboard when it costs Microst less.

Xbox 360 has (very arguably) the best software lineup this fall. They have some of the best exclusives (Wii has arguably better) and the best 3rd party support (PS3 has roughly the same though). I don't see how 360 can go from that to failure in 2 years. Lets see what effect the $50 fire sale price cut had on American sales.

 Oh you HAVE to agree with this guy!He says he can see the future! ZOMG MS is SCREWED

hahaha that made me laugh

I do, I can get %80 of the games you get and %19 you don't get I can play on the thing I'm currently using....yeah my PC since most 360 exclusives aren't actually exclusives, you can get play them on my PC.

PC+PS3=access to %99 of HD games

access to PC+360=%85 of HD games

Also once you factor in your AA battery supplies for the year($5 per pack x52 weeks =$260?) rumble no sixaxis(I get both) and you Live fee(which I get %85of for free on PSN) you've easily exceed what I've spent and are still lacking WiFi and other features that I got for less than you did.

Well at the rate the PS3 and 360 are selling at now, by March 2009 the PS3 would of been caught up and the PS3 has spanked the 360 in weekly sales for the past 30 weeks.  The 360 is slowly declining in popularity.

 Which exclusives?  Halo 3 and Forza that is it.  PS3 has better games than 360 when talking about exclusives.