@pearljammer

joke accounts.....lol

are you so desperate to deny the truth

I remember people talking the same way about the wii

remember how the DS Lite catapaulted DS sales

This is the 4th year the Xbox 360 has been out, it'll likely peak this year and then thats gonna be it, but it will never sell over 15 million in 1 year.

I hope this is a joke thread

I'm a very, very desperate man.

...Remind what I'm desperate about again?

@pearljammer

that MS may have a trick up its sleeve & may win this generation

Sorry, I forgot. Honestly.

I'l make you a bet.......Ok.

I bet you that the 360 will not sell 200M consoles and Win this Gen. Whoever loses gets permabanned from this site. Deal?

That dude got banned because he was trolling.  He went into one thread and said that Sony had better games and went into another at the same time stating the exact opposite and professing his love for all things 360. He was clearly trying to play the fanboys off one another, that's why he got banned.

OT: No, not a chance in hell.  Any hardware that Microsoft releases now will have nothing but a passing impact on this gen and perhaps serve as a testing ground for next gen.  I can see motion cameras being great for integrated home entertainment systems, or even as novel method for desktop control but as the primary controller for use in games, i'm less than convinced.  The total absence of  tactile feedback from the "controller", no buttons (they are good for some things) and how it would work with local multiplayer games are a few of my concerns. 

The demo shown with car racing was slightly silly, the control required you to put your hands closer together or further apart to speed up or slow down the car, a very abstract and less than intuitive gesture.  Sure this could be changed, but if you have to hold your hands up steer there are limited other motions that could be done at the same time.  Overall i'm far from convinced that this could be the future direction of game control, though it might work well for the Japanese masturbation game that Squilliam's going on about;)

So it was a fair banning, thats fine.

This is just as bad though

Unfortunately my crystal ball is not working at optimal levels. The current facts do not concurr with the OP conclusion. That said last year was supposed to be the 360 peak as well so maybe the fat lady has not done all her singing just yet but I am thinking she is a bit croaky and in need of a glass of water.

I do believe Microsoft have more to give and it will be sufficient to continue and modestly increase sales. What I do not see yet is what will make it suddenly shift 6 times its current numbers month on month.

• Motion plus? Even if it were proved true I am not sure it would be enough.
• Improvements in IPTV especially round HD streaming? Silverlight 3 has shown us the possible future but no proof outside of what is already happening to say the xbox will become that elusive media hub.
• A Super Game? Even if the Xbox had Halo4, MGS5 and Mario Cart super wars do I see that making a big enough difference at this stage.
  
  So, to recap not a chance in hell my friend.

 There's one big difference: Microsoft hasn't even announced this ''hand gesture'' controller yet. If they would unveil it at E3 or something, thén it might get interesting. We could see an all-out disruptive counter attack-war between Microsoft and Nintendo. And everyone here can forget about too many first party core games by the way because they will both fight for the Wii-audience... It'll be like Nintendo's E3 2008 press conference, only longer...

That is assuming that Microsoft's idea would actually be good enough.

And even then this is pointless because Microsoft could only introduce something like this at the beginning of a generation if they would want any kind of third-party support.