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Next Xbox 720 to launch in 2011-2012 according to Microsoft
supadupagama March 13th, 2007
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Microsoft Xbox 360While Sony already admitted to be thinking about the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo are no doubt developing a Wii 2… In an interview with the head of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business division, Peter Moore, EGM magazine asked him when their next video game console would come out, and also asked if they’d drop support for the Xbox 360 like they did with the original Xbox. He said that they were going to support it “as long as it sold.” Possibly because they saw the Xbox sell well into 2007 despite not producing the console after October 2005.
He said the production team from the Xbox 360 is working on the next Xbox 720 [our pet name], and their looking into what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012. That would put the Xbox 360 at a lifespan of 6 or 7 years, a far cry from the Xbox’s 4 years. After spending $1.26 billion in losses launching the Xbox 360, they’ll want to get the most out of the system by lengthening its lifespan. As the longer you get into the cycle, the more profit you can make due to stopping being a loss leader, analysts always remark.
On June 13th, 2008, Robbie Bach — the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft — mentioned the next Xbox by saying: “Our view is we will be selling Xbox 360 for a long time. We are always working on new technologies. We have people working on those. People ask me how many people I have working on the next generation. On the one hand, it’s everybody. On the other, it’s nobody. People are continuously working on new technology.
We started thinking about the next generation before we shipped the Xbox 360. It doesn’t start with a date. It starts way upstream with silicon development. From that comes a series of data points. You start making early technology choices. It’s an evolving thing. Stuff doesn’t become concrete until you get inside a window of when you have to ship, more than 18 months or so out.”
(Microsoft)
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Microsoft Comments on Next Xbox
Could Xbox 720 be completely digital?
by Hilary Goldstein
June 12, 2008 - During a conversation with Shane Kim, the new Corporate Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Microsoft offered very general commentary on the next Xbox console.
When asked if his new role includes looking at how Microsoft is going to transition into the next console, Kim said:
"How [do] you think about next generation? What is that next generation going to encompass? How are you even going to define that? All of that is part of the equation. What kind of geographic expansion do we need to see? Is the world more of an online world than a hardware-oriented world? I think there are some really fascinating opportunities in front of us."
While the statement offers no details, it does suggest that Microsoft is at least exploring the idea of launching a digital system rather than a traditional expensive piece of hardware.
We're likely several years from the next Xbox, so enjoy this brief statement. It may be the last we get for a while.
(IGN)
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Xbox 720, Wii 2 To Launch By 2010
Predictions are always fun, but they tend to garner a little more credence when they come from a respected source. Gamespot UK recently turned to Evan Wilson, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, for his feelings on the recent EA resurgence and for his outlook into the gaming future. There are four very notable things that mentions near the end of his interview.
1. Microsoft will launch its Xbox 360 successor some time in 2010, possibly ushering the way for an Xbox 720. Hopefully they'll be able to overcome the red ring of death this time around.
2. Nintendo will launch its Wii successor shortly before Microsoft, marking one of the first times in recent history that the big N will be the first to enter a new generation of gaming. The Wii brought motion controls to the mainstream. What will the Wii 2 bring?
3.... and 4. Both the PSP and DS are dead by 2010. This doesn't mean that portable gaming will go bye-bye, but it does point toward replacement gaming devices, just as the DS effectively bumped the Game Boy name off the map.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, that's Nostradamus on the left.
(Gamespot UK)