| JohnSmith said: Out of the current systems : Wii, DS, 360, PSP, PS2, PS3 What I mean by death is having no longer games released for it. |
Depending on the level of success the 360 sees in the next two years, it could easily be the 360. Right now, it has a bad reputation for reliability, and if Sony makes up a lot of ground over Microsoft and starts talking about the PS4 in a couple of years, I think MS will get ansy and want to push their next system out first again.
And like they did with the original Xbox, they could phase the 360 out entirely to push the new, potentially profitable product. But this whole scenario depends a lot on subjective decisions by Microsoft executives.
If the next systems die a natural death, I think the PS2 and PSP are the most likely to die. The PS2 will most likely be receiving releases for another three years, minimum. Depending on how much Sony can drop the price of the PS3, it will inevitably phase the PS2 out. The biggest question in that case, of course, is price -- can Sony make the PS3 cheap enough ($129) to replace the PS2 everywhere.
The PSP may get a successor before the DS. Sony may want to dethrone the DS instead of having Nintendo do so.
