is there any reason why microsoft would discontinue xbox 360?

Lots of rubbish being spouted by the fan boys as usual: Microsoft or any company in the retail business will continue to offer the product as long as its profitable, selling and a demand for it exists. If you look at NPD figures the 360 is increasing year on year sales so I cant see it being discontinued even if they launch a new console to compete against the WiiU. Look at how the PS2 kept Sony ticking over when the PS3 wasnt selling in the early days, if they didnt have the revenue coming from that then you could find PS3 may have been discontinued as xbox was giving the losses it made in the early years, so having a revenue stream from an existing product only helps in the transition to your new product.

Sony & Microsoft consoles also have the online generated revenue to bolster the bottom line when sales of the consoles slows so I would expect both PS3 & 360 to continue into the next gen for some time to come and rightly so as both are excellent consoles.

I hate all this crap about the 360 failing and such.

Ps3 is in last place and they lost so much money.
Let's just say they should discontinue the Wii because we don't like it.

To make the haters happy?

Blu Ray and larger HDD's keeps the PS3 in the game for the future. 360 has pretty much nothing, standard DVD drive, smaller HDD's, etc.DragonfireXZ95

Why will Blu Ray and larger HDD make the PS3 last longer? Majority of games come on a single DVD, and developers cant afford to invest the money required to fill a Blu Ray, hell even a lot of Blu Ray movies dont use the full disc! In case you havent noticed, developers are tending to release DLC for extra revenue, this is not included on the Blu Ray for free even though it could easily store it. The size of a Hard Drive is not really a problem either as the 360 doesnt require any game to be installed and updates for games are reasonably sized, also USB storage is available and a Microsoft this year and a lot of vendors are moving to cloud storage now.

I honestly think both Sony & Microsoft will announce new consoles within the next 2 years and 360 & PS3 will continue for another 2-3 years after the Next gen consoles release, look at the PS2 lifespan, its amazing and its still going! The thing that will keep the 360 & PS3 going is not Blu Ray or HDD's but the online services products & lest we forget them........ Games

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Other than Blu-Ray I'm not sure why people keep saying the PS3 is superior hardware-wise to the 360. The CPU is powerful but the graphics chip is inferior to the 360's. making any significant leap in processing power debatable. The most grahically impressive exclusives on the PS3 so far aren't much of a step beyond what we've seen on the 360. Hopefully Sony will re-think their approach to hardware design next generation.

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