Lifespan has nothing to do with "being prepared"

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#1 Metroid_Time
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People keep saying that the 360 will only have a lifespan of 4 years because the first one did. They also keep saying the PS3 will last for ten years simply because the first one did and the PS2 is still popular.

Well what actually has affects the lifepsan of a console is simply its popularity. The xbox wasn't selling well at all and Microsoft was hemmoraging

money to the amount of 4 billion dollars. Sony on the other hand was still making tidy profits fro mthe PS2 and had no need to end it's lifespan so quickly.

The PS2 was the weakest of last gen yet it lasted the longest was it because it was the most "prepared"? 

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#2 MorisUkunRasik
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ps1= ten years, ps2= seven years and counting. The PS3 is extremely prepared for the future, the 360 is getting updated at an alarming rate because it wasn't perfected the first time around. But to say it will last 4 years is naive. XBOX had a relatively small install base, but MS cut support for it the day 360 launched, if they continued to support it it might have seen a few more years of life. The 360 is being supported by developers more so than the original xbox, because of that one year jump start, but if that one year head start is beneficial to the long term is debatable.