Well, they're ready approaching the promise of 10 years lifespan, it still got some good games to come this and next year besides sport games. But everything must come to an end. I believe it will be next year at the most, hardware sales a pretty week.

Sometime in 2017 I'm guessing...

2016 and it ll have lasted 10years.... So pretty sure they make that 10year promis.

I could see it still being in production until around 2017, maybe 2018.

Never, they have to run production for their PSnow servers as well. Xbox 360 on the other could stop being produced in 2 years espacially with BC on XBO

actually a fair point.... BC makes owning the previous gen, not really a issue at all.

I wonder if the Xb360 or PS3 will break 90million globally at some point... VGchartz has the PS3 @ ~86million units sold.

can it squeeze out another 4million units sold?

Wow.... now thats trying to be an opportunist for your console of choice.

Apparently you do not understand server architecture,  nor virtualization. Sony doesn't tether actual PS3s together for PS Now.... they take the chipset and duplicate it 6-8x for every blade. In a few years Sony will have an emulator set up (on the server only) and will start using x86 hardware for both ps3 and ps4 games.

when they stop selling.

The PS Now servers have nothing to do with the PS3 being produced. The games run on PS3 virtual machines inside larger Power PC servers. Unless you thought that they are a bunch of PS3 stripped together with tape..

As for the b/c, it will be limited. Plenty of games won't be supported, for the same reasons they are not reaching PS Now (which is even a paid service) either, and for the same reasons FF VII cutscenes stutter on my PS3, FF X looked interlaced in my PAL fat PS3. SW b/c is a PITA to make it working. Unless patching the X360 games, but that will hardly happen.

Xbox marketing and strategy chief, Yusuf Mehdi, intends to fully support the XB360 until 2016

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-09-04-microsoft-xbox-360-will-last-three-more-years

As for the PS3, Sony has promised to have a 10 year life cycle. In order to keep that promise to all countries (some that didn't get it on launch day) I presume it will last until 2017 to give a similar 11 year life cycle like the XB360.

2018 sounds about right.