The Xbox 360 will last longer than the Xbox. This much should be obvious to everyone. The original Xbox was killed off early for two reasons;-
The GPU deal they worked out with nVidia and the bundled hard drive meant they could never turn a profit on the device
and
They wanted to move everybody over to the 360 ASAP.
That's it. With the 360 they have a much better set up to turn a profit on low cost hardware, they'll have a healthy last gen ecosystem which will make them money whilst launching their next "system" and this generation will be longer than the last.
So there is every reason to believe the 360 will be selling in 2011 / 2012 and possibly beyond. At what rate, will be the question.
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The GPU deal they worked out with nVidia and the bundled hard drive meant they could never turn a profit on the device
and
They wanted to move everybody over to the 360 ASAP.
That's it. With the 360 they have a much better set up to turn a profit on low cost hardware, they'll have a healthy last gen ecosystem which will make them money whilst launching their next "system" and this generation will be longer than the last.
So there is every reason to believe the 360 will be selling in 2011 / 2012 and possibly beyond. At what rate, will be the question.