Prediction: Microsoft will launch the Xbox Two in 2017 or 2018

[Mr Puggsly]

AlfredoTurkey said:

Mr Puggsly said:

No, I think some people just assume the worst.

If X1 was selling as poorly as Wii U or Vita, I'd understand your reasoning.

It's not about sales. If you go back to the original Xbox, Microsoft never had an interest in being in the console business. The original Xbox was, according to the horses mouth, nothing more than a trojan horse into the living room. Microsoft was worried Sony was going to beat them to the punch in that regard and the Xbox was their solution. This is why you saw the slow and obvious "evolution" of the platform from core gaming machine (Xbox) to casual love fest (Kinect) to nothing but tv, tv and more tv (original Xbox One). Even within those leaked docs that came out a few years before the Xbox One launched, the bullet points were talking about their platform evolving into an "entertainment" device. Hell, their own brass started saying as much (remember the guy who said the 360 wasn't a console anymore, but an entertainment box?).

I think having Xbox One bomb so far as far as achieving their main goal of being said entertainment device has thrown their plans into a top spin and they're struggling to make a shift now. I don't believe they're trying to figure out a way to remain a console gaming player. I think think they're trying to figure out how to transition their core fanbase over to windows so they can get out. 

Oh boy... you have an anti Xbox agenda and ignore anything MS does that doesn't support your argument.

Xbox never stopped being a core gaming machine and MS never stopped pushing core games. MS tried to appeal to casuals as well and they had some success with that.

Xbox and Playstation are both entertainment boxes. Millions of people use them for other forms of entertainment outside of video games. There would be less demand for them if they were just game consoles.

X1 didn't bomb. Vita and Wii U are only the bombs this gen. MS knows their biggest mistakes with X1. It was launching with Kinect and high price. The biggest mistake with PS3 was also high price. Next gen, they need to be more competitively price and keep pumping out notable games.