"Halfway through' its lifecycle"

Nevermind
Not much to shout about upto this point
Dont see much hope for the future

How are we to know when the 360 will die? That's for God to decide. /s

The tech is dated and dead, The exclusives are bad except Gears of War 3.

Ive gone to PC gaming.

That does not mean they will not release a new console soon.

@Markus_max1mus
Alan wake, forza and halo wars are other great exclusives other than gears 3.

I wonder how long Sony will go without releasing a new console, if, say, M$ released a new Xbox in 2013?

PS3 has far longer to go than the ol' 360, which is most certainly in it's "winter phase" if you ask me.

Half way through = bull.

So, by this guys math skills, the xbox can sustain itself for another what, 5 or 6 years? No chance.

I told you guys.. Next gen wont start before 2014.

apple has now got a chance to catch sony and microsoft by surprise and release the much needed next gen console .
probably a 6 core processor with a custom gtx590 and 4gb ddr4 ram.
every hardcore gamer will buy it because it will blow the competition out of the water !!!

720 = 2012

oops sorry about that, didnt mean to comment :(

Traditional console cycles are 5-6 years. MS will drop something real soon, but guess he means continued support of the 360 unlike how they dropped XB1.

Remember consoles come out 5-6 years, MS wants to recover as much money as possible before investing on new tech, and I don't blame them.

I would say the 360 is at the end of its life cycle, Kinect is at its start, and MS is trying to artificially lengthen the 360's life with Kinect. But it won't really work.

I'm not really interested in a newer generation of hoem consoles at the mintue. I still think there's plenty to get from the 360 and Ps3, both gaming wise and media wise too.

Although if there is a new line of consoles on the way, i'm not massively fussed if there isn't a big step in graphical performance, but i would like a step up in overall performance of games. Having greater draw distances, more enemies/action on screen and having all games output at 1080p at 60FPS would be awesome

Ookaaay, whatever dude (shaking head).

I don't buy it, but that Kinect crap is lengthening the 360s life which is already on it's last tippy toe & about to fall on it's face.

We probably needed a new console this year but they're just pushing Kinect.
Oh well, at least I have my PC.

Yeah 360s future is cookie monster and kinect disney.
My future is with a PC

Yea makes sense, kinect is pretty new and ain't cheap, so they would have alot of angry people if they just dropped it for a new console, unless of course it's backward compatable??!?

ummm no its more than halfway through its life cylce you can find the xbox at 129 dollars on sale.... if they really think kinect will push the console another 5 years then i feel sorry for those core xbox defenders defending their brand.

Seems like he could just be posturing to encourage continued interest in Kinect and the 360 to keep sales going until the announcement of the next console.

Bollox!

all this 360 long life cycle stuff is just hype for Kinect. M$ knows that if it wants more of the PS market share that getting a head start on the PS4 is the best thing to do. it was a great move to release 360 before PS3 and it would be even an even greater move to release 720 before PS4.

Xbox 720 2012.

I wouldn't be surprised if Halo 4 launches for the 720 and 360.

To all the people calling them out...or saying BS... MS is looking at things for the 360 exactly as Sony has with the PS2 and no doubt the PS3.

They 360 will begin to see price drops to keep the sales up. The 360 will still be manufacutered and supported for many more years...

BUT

MS will launch a new box in the coming 2 yrs (announce nxt year...launch 2013). At that point the 360 will be in the sub $100 for the 4GB unit...infact they may just drop the support for the other units and only sell the 4GB once they launch the new Xbox. Either way, both will be in the market for a few years then they will pull the plug on the 360.

And for those saying but look at what they did with the Xbox! To that MS already admitted that how they handled the first Xbox was a mistake, and that the 360 would not see a similar fate. Trust me, MS has taken very good notes on how Sony handled the PS2 / PS3 transition.

All this means is that microsoft is ready to support 2 systems this time around.

They are relying much to much on Kinect to say something like this. The hardware is old, we need MORE POWER!!

-End Of Line

WAT! 360 is basically at da end of its cycle, its reached its limit! ms stop lying so devs dont just develop 4 da ps3, alot of devs hav said that 360 has reached its limit!

good to hear that