I finally understand Sonys 10 year plan!

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BTFeather55 said:

nintendo_fanboy said:

And, first and foremost, why should Microsoft be so stupid to end this gen already in 2010 when they are finally making a fine profit with their console?

5.  The same reason they did in 2005 following the release of Halo 2 one of the biggest games of its gen and for the same reason they moved from XP to Vista because they were ready to work with new technology.  They've given up on winning this gen already (see the article released last summer when one of the Microsoft ceo's is saying that the Wii has won this gen and they are going to battle Sony for second place -- you don't see such defeatist statements coming out of Sony) and are ready to start working on winning the next one. 

 

Apparently you don't know much about Xbox's history. The reason the Xbox was discontinued was that NVIDIA stopped making GPUs due to a feud with MS. Since NVIDIA owned the GPU's design, Microsoft couldn't keep making consoles.

In this gen, Microsoft went with ATI instead, and this time they probably own the GPU's design in order to prevent the same problem.

Long story short, you won't see the same thing happening this gen. Microsoft will very likely keep the 360 alive for as long as they can, and I don't see any good reason for them to undercut its lifetime by launching another console in 2010. They're now starting to recoup the game's division losses with the X360 as a machine that sells lots of software, and they will want to keep this going for a few more years.