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Microsoft Confirms Work Begun on Next Xbox
Via 1up, an interview with Chris Lewis, head of Xbox Development in Europe. Along with some interesting discussion of X06 and aiming games at European markets, Lewis confirms what most people could reasonably expect: Microsoft is already hard at work on the next Xbox system. From the 1up article: "'You can't sit back on your laurels in this business - the consumer won't let you, the developers certainly won't let us. So that's happening right now,' ... In order to remain competitive, hardware manufacturers have to start thinking about the next cycle the moment work finishes on the current one. Ideas for the following generation were likely generated during the development of Xbox 360, and you can surely bet the same situations cropped up in the R&D rooms of Sony and Nintendo while working on PlayStation 3 and Wii."
You're new to this whole "buying technology" thing... aren't you?
If it's not obsoleted within 5 years by new technology it's not technology, it's an small appliance.
I'm a fiscal conservative, it's a pity we don't have a political party anymore
That'll show the people who said MS was only getting into the console business to milk people on the hardware treadmill!
This guy's the limit!
No no no, it was only the "360" so that they could have that crucial number "3" to compete with PlayStation's.
Next generation gaming, welcome the "XBox 420" no next-gen console will be more fully-loaded. They've got real high hopes.
Even better news: In reponse to the backlash on DRM, the XBox 420 will support ripping.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
The problem is that it isn't so obvious. I saw a blurb earlier today (not sure if it was dig or dot) that said some PS3 devs have already hit the current 25GB limit of bluray discs. 25GB is a lot to be downloading today, and tomorrow's games will be even heavier. In smaller countries, roll-out of newer networking technologies can happen quickly, but that's not so in the US, the major target market. 25GB will still be a painful download for most of the target market in 4-6 years and you can safely assume that the size of games will not be 25GB by then. Optical will still be here unless they can come up with another removable storage that can compete with it in terms of price.
When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
according to TFA the 360 wont be replaced until sometime after 2010, so NO not 3 years. more like 5 or 6
I think the thing people don't realize is that the Xbox 360 didn't come early... the Xbox 1 came late.. the 360 was pretty much right on time. The Dreamcast kicked off the last gen in 1999 and The Xbox wasn't released until more then 3 years later, Sony had planned to release the following spring but was delayed, Nintendo almost always launches late (so they can have competitive tech at a lower price). The fact that Sony is launching the same time as Nintendo shows that they're late in this genreation. The fact that MS launched the same time as Nintendo last time showed that they were late to the last generation.
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