EaglesEye379 on 31 May 2009
| Munkeh111 said: That is true, if they could get it ready for September it would be different, but as it is, it is Spring, so at best it would have come in November, and yeah that is certainly busy. I don't think there is any danger of it coinciding with XIII, I doubt that will be out until Winter 2010... In terms of the life-spans of the consoles, I am pretty sure that we will see the nextbox in 2012, 7 years is a long time to keep a console on the market, and I assume M$ will want to beat the competition out the door again. I would be interested in knowing how much the Xbox 360 costs to make, because if they are near breaking even with the arcade, it is so cheap that they can keep it at that price for a long time and probably get some decent money from it, especially if this generation does keep on going for ages as then they will get even greater software sales |
If MS wants to follow Sony's path then theres more evidence it will be >7 years until at least 2014-2015. With the costs of the PS3 and all Sonys studios only now starting to hit their stride with the PS3, Im sure Sony will want the PS3 around for at least 10 years - making it 2016.
Actually thinking about it, Mass Effect dropped around the same time as Assassins Creed / Call of Duty 4 / BioShock so maybe its more to do with development time like you said :)
