Yep,here for good. It has sold 10million units thats enough to keep developers making games for it.rykh
Not just console sales - no one cares about that alone - it's attach rate that matters. The attach rate is 5.7 on a console selling over 10.4 million - that's huge. The PS2 might have a bigger console base - but the 360 base is actively buying games, lots of them, and that excites software companies.LIVE is growing strong, and there are plenty of games shaping up for 2008 already - Fable 2, Lost Odyssey, Project Gotham Racing 4, Halo Wars, Unreal Tournament 3, et cetera.
Also consider Halo 3 as a game. Halo 2 came out in 2005, yet just the other day we got a map pack for it - name another console game that still has updates coming out for it two years and another system later. It's an industry first. I think we'll be seeing the next Xbox in late 2010 or 2011 - consoles tend to have a five to six year life, so that would fit in pretty well.
Calling ten years is ridiculous - graphics cards are getting expontentially better the way CPUs were a few years ago, and they're about to go multicore the way CPUs are going now. I can see that technology falling to a fair ($400 console) price by 2011 at the latest, so there's no way Microsoft would miss that opportunity.
As far as games are concerned - you need not worry, the Xbox end life had far more games than the beginning, and that trend seems to be continuing on the 360. More and more companies will turn to the green team as sales continue to coast along.
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