totalwar23 said:
The same thing is true with the PS3 and Xbox360. However, the longevity of a console depends on how financially successful it is for the people supporting it. Xbox lasted for 4 years before MS decided to release a new one, remember?
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That's because the Xbox was a money sink for MS. It accomplished the primary goal of getting a foothold in the game hardware industry, but it had no future other than as the predecessor to the 360 due to its distant second place finish. Nvidia pulling the rug out from under the Xbox only made it a simpler issue to axe the console altogether, but either way, there was no point in MS to continue to back a loser with no future, even though it had a devoted user base due a very respectable library of softs.
Like the Saturn and Dreamcast, in the end, the Xbox was probably still being sold at a loss without a massive influx of license fees from volume games sales to make the platform profitable.
