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The Xbox 360 sold a quarterly record of 2.7 million units between 1st January and 31st March this year, Microsoft has announced, up from 1.5 million over the same period last year.

The data came from Microsoft's fiscal Q3 financial report released today, which stated that total Xbox 360 platform revenue grew year-on-year by $712 million (or 69 per cent) to $1.95 billion.

Company-wide, revenue was up 13 per cent to $16.43 billion.

Driving the platform's growth, the Kinect peripheral sold 2.4 million units in the quarter, putting life-to-date sales at around 10.4 million units when taking into account the eight million it sold between its 4th November launch and 31st December 2010.

"Consumers are delighted with Kinect, as well as our entire Xbox 360 platform, for the revolutionary experience it brings to their living room," commented chief financial officer Peter Klein during an investor call. "Kinect continues to lead the way forward in gaming."

With hardware sales clearly on an upswing, Microsoft insisted that it wasn't ready to start discussing the Xbox 360's successor.

"We're really not talking about that," said investor relations boss Bill Koefoed, in response to a question as to when new hardware might be forthcoming.

"Right now we're incredibly excited about what's going on with Xbox 360 and certainly Kinect, which is relatively new to the market, so we're focussed on that."

As reported earlier this week, Nintendo plans to unveil its next home console at E3 this year.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-28-microsoft-not-ready-to-talk-new-hardware

Figures, E3 2012 earliest!!!

God the Microsoft forums on this site are dead.  I agree with Seece though, mid-2010 earliest.

I think we will see M$ announce their next console E3 2012 and will be released mid 2013. 

MS should continue to lay low and reap the rewards from the dooming of Nintendo and hacking of PS3 for now.

I think MS should just wait and see what exactly is going on with Project Cafe, in order to see how they can combat it with their next console. 

The console development process is very long, and begins the instant you get the previous console out the door. MS will have about a year from the release of the Wii2 to the release of the 720. That is not enough time for much in the way of changing their console.

Makes sense. The HD consoles are peaking really late in their life compared to previous generations, that means they can last much longer.

When you peak early, sales drop fast, much like the Wii. Sales are like an inverted V.

When you gain momentum slowly, it means the item can sell similar amounts for a longer time.

So the 360 should be able to keep selling well until 2013 no problem, unless Café affects it much, which remains to be seen.

i hope they release at 2014 no need for a new console from either sony or MS there SW lineup are still good

i would like to see MS also gotoe to toe with sony as far as release time is concerned i feel thats why the 360 is as successful as it is, in 05 when the 360 came out with its > 480p resolution games and most all of last gens mulit plat games that where exclusive to PS2  made there way to the 360, i feel it really took alot PS2 owners in the NA and EU regions that didnt want to wait for a PS3

MS is all about Kinect and I love it.