I'm not sure there will ever be a next Xbox console, especially if the only country they continue to sell well is the US. When you're half the price of your competitor, you need to sell better than roughly the same as your competitor to succeed...
Ms still didn't recoup the Xbox 1 losses, the 360 is dead in Japan (1 million vs 4 million PS3), and most recent multiplatform games sell more on PS3 worldwide (RE5, SF4...).
I highly doubt it's enough to convince MS shareholders to go on with the gaming market. That was never MS core market anyway, and they're bleeding too much money in every business right now (Zune failure vs Ipod, Yahoo bid failure, IE losing market share to Firefox Safari and Chrome, Vista failure, Office losing market share vs Open Office).







