No new Xbox Console in Microsoft’s future

By on Jan 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM
General January 10, 2009

For those of you that have been sitting at home, pining away for a shiny new Xbox-branded console to replace your ailing 360, you might want to consider taking up a new hobby. Robbie Bach, president of MS’ entertainment division, revealed that the company has decided to focus its efforts on continuing development of the existing generation console for the foreseeable future. According to the company, research has proven that fewer gamers are in the market to upgrade their existing system these days, likely due at least in part to the ailing economy. As such, the company is planning on concentrating its efforts of exploiting the Xbox 360 to its full potential, with plans for new features and further game development. This isn’t terribly surprising, but it’s still a bit disappointing given the relative ago of the Xbox 360, which went into production in 2005…almost 4 years ago. Now that Microsoft has shown its cards, what new features would you most like to see the company work on integrating into the 360?

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  • Mystery

    Well i know someone who works for MS and he said there might be a new one coming, but im not going into details

    • Monkey

      Well it doesnt surprise me the PS3 is by far better then the XBOX 360. I saw in a new article that it has a 96% failure rate, you can’t swap out the HDD and it has no blue ray or bluetooth. I have never had a prob with my PS3 but only after owning the Xbox 360 for 3 months it craped out on me. I will never own another one again.

  • drew

    yes it is true that the xbox has had failure problems but they give you a brand new system for free if yours fails. but the ps3 is the worst system by no contest its made the least amount of sales and has had to drop its price dramatically its started at 600 dropped to 400 in like 6 months then 350 in a year and a half now its 200, its a joke system it doesnt have any games, did anyone else notice that sony made ps2 games all the way up till last year? it was because they were making no money at all.

    • Chad

      I’ve read through most of these and all i have to say is wow. These are the same arguments AND points that were made at PS3′s “late to the dance launch” If anyone took 3 seconds to actually search the web a bit on the topic (which you can’t with an xbox lol) you’d find on Vchart that the PS3 outsold the Xbox in “09″ and has climbed to only a overall 4million units less sold then xbox from 17million last year. I play MW2 online on both (friend is on his 5th xbox) and see no difference. Microsoft WILL NOT REPLACE YOUR BUSTED ASS MACHINE FOR FREEEEEEE if your 1 year warranty is out. I’ve played on both online services and yes there is a hole whooping two features that psn dose’nt have….yet, cross game chating, and playing personal music while in game, you go on and keep that i’ll keep my 50 dollars a year…and still get it in the end and for that moron that was talking about his ping and lose of connection. I run a constant download of15.5mbps an upload of 958kbps with a ping of 35 MS!!!!! Don’t blam PS3 for either your shity internet or your crap area. Every 3 months or so my services are updated with new features and new software FOR FREEEEEEE. I can download music and movies FOR FREEEEEEE on the web browser and put them on my internal 2.5in SATA 500GB HDD that i paid under $100 for and i have a TB external Backup/Media server that i paid under $130 for. As a guy earlier stated blu-ray is next in media AS WELL as gaming media and again to all of you morons who said blu-ray is crap or dose’nt matter go back to VHS and spare us the ignorance that seems to natural flow from your mouth. I’m sure after ready this flags are flying FANBOY FANBOY and i really don’t care i had a PS then an Xbox then PS3 i have zero loyalties to sony despite the above argument. I follow quality and if that means McDonalds comes out with a superb system next gen then by all means super size me. I will never buy a product that has been on the market for over 4 years and STILL AS OF A GAME INFORMER RECENT UPDATE STILL!!!!!! FAILS!!!! OVER 50% OF THE TIME!!!!! ohh yeah MS sure has earned that loyalty haven’t they.

      • Ron Doe

        haha. douche bag.

  • Jason

    whoever wrote this must like nintendo because who wants to buy a new system every four to five years. i like the way sony has a 10 year lifespan for each system. and i don’t even own a PS3. I’m happy microsoft doesn’t look at it like nintendo does and looks to improve the current system

  • Toryn

    i think all of the systems have their fall backs and their strengths, but i personally am torn between the xbox and the ps2. now i micrsoft came out with a handjeld then i would give up sony. (if the hand held had TWO analog stics unlike the psp)

  • Parker

    Even though the ps3 is free the xbox has better Internet features and it is way more reliable. But I wish I bought a ps3.

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