I doubt that this year or next will be the "last season sale" of the Xbox 360. I agree with the deftangel's 2 reasons for the early death to the original Xbox.
Additionally, people really aren't expecting a new system to completely replace the 360 yet (evident from the article welshbloke posted on fewer xbox 360 users want upgrade). Sales don't peak in a cycle until there is strong anticipation that a new console is coming out and people hold off to buy the new one...and I really don't think that will happen this year. When the Xbox peaked by year 4, MSFT was already rumbling about next-generation machines. This time both MSFT and SNE have been have been saying they don't plan on rolling out next-gen for a while.
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I doubt that this year or next will be the "last season sale" of the Xbox 360. I agree with the deftangel's 2 reasons for the early death to the original Xbox.
Additionally, people really aren't expecting a new system to completely replace the 360 yet (evident from the article welshbloke posted on fewer xbox 360 users want upgrade). Sales don't peak in a cycle until there is strong anticipation that a new console is coming out and people hold off to buy the new one...and I really don't think that will happen this year. When the Xbox peaked by year 4, MSFT was already rumbling about next-generation machines. This time both MSFT and SNE have been have been saying they don't plan on rolling out next-gen for a while.