Timed Monopoly: Why it's Too Soon for the Next Xbox

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Dno said:
ok i have read everyones opinon in this thread and i have to say you are all crazy xbox heads. this article is VERY TRUE and the improving sales of the ps3 prove it. 360 sales are going to down microsoft knows this and is working on another system. they will kill the industry not sony.

If microsoft makes another system in less then 4 years i will NOT get it. they have proven that their hardware sucks and then i paid 479.99 for an elite that last only 3 years. i have all systems and like the xbox but the article is true and if all you fanboy xbots dont see it you are blind.

and rocketpig the article is saying the ps3 is MORE future proof then 360 and that is DAMN true

If you had read the "article", you'd notice that "future proof" was used in other occations too. And the thing RP was saying was nothing is future proof. PS3 may last longer in the market that 360, but it doesn't make PS3 future proof. Or what if PS3 dies 6 months after 360, wouldn't getting 360 at launch have been more future proof than getting PS3 at launch? PS3 has BD which potentially can expand the life of PS3 beyond this console generation, while 360 has non-free online, which potentially can expand the life of 360 beyond this generation. But if we want to look at it how future proof was used, by Average Joe knowing Playstation is future proof, it could resemble that since the Average Joe doesn't understand how things work, he/she assumes that Playstation 3 has similar cycle than the previous ones. But since the Average Joe wasn't the average Xbox customer, he definately doesn't know what kind of lifecycle Xbox had, and really, doesn't even care. The Average Joe sees 360 lifecycle similar than what the other Playstations, besides 360, had, if Average Joe even thinks the lifecycle of his console (which is proved by people still buying PS2:s). @Topic: I wouldn't be surprised if that post would have been picked from SDF, despite it having few good points. First console in the market have never won, while Sega gained a lot with Megadrives headstart. Sega thought it was clever to release Dreamcast before the others, but N64 was still too new and PS2 was more powerful than DC, which suffered from 3rd party support. The hardcore definately bought the Dreamcast, but the casuals bought PS2... Now what the writer suggests, is that M$ is going the Sega way, which i don't believe. If M$ is going to launch third console, it's under development. And if they see some planned game to fit better for their future console, maybe because of new innovation or new tech, it is better to move to that console, since M$ definately knows that they aren't going to win this generation and they have a shot to win the next one if they play things right. Anyway, i doubt that "rumor" being anywhere near truth. A good example was the rumored GC controller before GC release, and just like Shigeru stated that they were planning to release a controller similar to Wii Remote for GC, but since Nintendo propably saw that they had lost the game before GC release, they decided to push their innovation for the next generation.