Microsoft: “We Don’t Need a New Xbox Model!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 12, 2010 18:14 JST
- Tags: Interviews, Microsoft, PS3, Sony, Technology, Video Gallery, Xbox 360
Microsoft has scoffed at the notion of re-releasing the Xbox 360, saying the console is a long-term product due to be bolstered by the release of Project Natal.
Microsoft’s senior director of Xbox product management is bullish on the future of the Xbox 360:
“I think it’s important to say that the Xbox 360 is the console of the long future for us. There is no need to launch a new console, because we’re able to give this console new life either with software upgrades or hardware upgrades like Project Natal.
The Xbox 360 was designed for a long life, and I don’t even know if we’re at the midpoint yet.”
Sony had previously employed similar rhetoric when trying to excuse flagging sales of the PS3 prior to its successful relaunch – Microsoft is evidently hoping for a similar fillip.
Microsoft abjectly refused to comment on the prospect of new chip features, a Blu-ray drive, or even a simple modernisation of the existing hardware, insisting all is well with the console:
“We love our prices right now. I don’t want to say that technology stops, but we believe we have a high quality console, and we stand by that quality with an unprecedented warranty, so we think we’re in a good place now heading into the Natal era.”
Previously Microsoft has asserted the Xbox 360 will remain a viable platform until 2015, though sadly it may be unlikely the same can be said of any of the individual consoles.
Microsoft is apparently planning to ensure this viability exclusively through Project Natal, apparently set to become either a groundbreaking next generation controller or else the means by which Microsoft can finally unleash a horde of mediocre party games onto the Xbox:
However, recent news that Microsoft has opted to slash the cost of Natal units by dumping a specialised processor in favour of having the Xbox itself do the work, which is naturally said to have no adverse performance impact, may yet prove an unwelcome reminder of the kind of quality the initial Xbox 360 models were notorious for.
Sony for its part plans its own markedly inferior Wii motion controller knock-off in the spring, which unsurprisingly also promises to offload its processing requirements onto the PS3 with no adverse performance impact.
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Silly Microsoft, no one cares if the upgrades could make it more powerful than the Pentagon. Unless it looks new, it is inferior.
I heard they are gonna add a new and more powerful RROD...
Oh anon, I would + You right now if only I weren't too lazy to have an account.
Microsoft are the lazy ones... we all know the real reason for not making another console is because they blew all their money on Windows 7...
probably on Nanami Madobe, getting the idea from Love Plus... it didnt work.
Then I don't think you have an idea of how much money Microsoft have!
...you can't be serious. Microsoft can afford to buy, not lease, buy 23 countries right now you seriously think Windows 7 made them short on cash? They've only been working on 7 for 9 years consider their entire investment into Windows 7 the same way you would think of the amount of money you can hide in your shoe while you are travelling.
You fucking idiots. Microsoft Windows =/= Microsoft Games Studios.
More powerfull RROD??? DEAR GOD!
Not only is the Nu edition more of everything, the system not only blinks three lights when RRoDing. It also has equipped within a motion detector so when the person inspects said light gets near, the plastic Explosives that line the interior will blow the foos head clean off!
microScum fer the whine!
theyre in the denial stage. i feel bad for them. natal is soo gonna fail.
RED RING of DEATH....Red Ring of Death...Red Ring of Death.
I know gamers who've opened & fixed their consoles numerous times. Microsoft could easily have made 360 a quality product from the jump, They chose to make it faulty so You'd have to buy MORE. To this day I have only ever owned 1 PS2 & PS3 (both still work like new).
How about green X of fail?
I heard this more powerful RROD can also make your penono shrivel up to the point of no existence to notify the player right away that he attained the RROD achievement.
Yes, each of the four sectors now glows a different color and rotates.
*muzak plays* "Now brought to you by microsoft...a NEW way to end the day. NEW RRoD: RETRO RING OF DELIGHTFULLNESS, Yes that's right folks, when your hardware fails you are rewarded a lightshow bringing in the new decade. But that's not all! Call now and get a detachable version~! Now you can send in a failed system, but KEEP the RRoD! 300 volts to power the most superspecialahsum light thingamajigger to ever exist. Get yours now for the low low low low LOW low price of ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-eight. Call Now!"
The new and impoved RRoD will not only kill your Xbox but lasers will also shoot out of it and probably kill you aswell.
A more powerful RROD won't help them when nintendo releases their already confirmed new home console and they still have xbox 360, considering that ninty want to make their new console more powerful than a 360
Typical Microsoft. Say what you have to keep customers pouring in with updates then, BAM! hit us a few months later with news of a "better" console that rivals other platforms...
Can u imagine if a new console is in the making already? No one get updates or buys games but waits for the the first-look at the latest console.
Mark this day; Microsoft will eat their own words.
Cause in the end, all we have is the word of a man named David...
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this comment from Microsoft, "we believe we have a high quality console, and we stand by that quality with an unprecedented warranty". That is nothing but an utter failure.
54% failure rate is not considered "high quality", and they had no choice but to extend the warranty because of those failures, otherwise they would've lost more customers ages ago.
This is how great their "high quality" product performed yesterday in a high profile competition:
http://kotaku.com/5445667/mlg-win-ruined-by-faulty-xbox-360
"The Xbox 360 was designed for a long life, and I don’t even know if we’re at the midpoint yet."
Long life... Yet many died already...
The statement was referring to the console specs. This is ofc also absolute bullshit. My $500 laptop outperforms my 360 and my PS3 (Minus Blu-ray) and it's, well, ya know, portable and whatnot, and it has an actual OS. I personally will be rather unsatisfied if gaming (which seems to be all about consoles for some reason) manages to exist on our current gen consoles for 5 more years.
*Raises Glass* Here's to hoping that Steam continues to provide great games at good deals to all of us lazy/sheltered gaming nerds who can't be bothered to leave the house for our product. Continue to forge into the future of online distribution for the sake of Gamerkind!
Really, you can't compare a computer to consoles when it comes to graphics.
Gameplay is also better with 60 fps and being able to see far in front of you what you need to shoot *wink wink*
Computer clearly wins in the graphics department. Most console are only 720p in game mode with 1080p FMV. Computer games resolution has gone way beyond that. The so-called "Reality Synthesizer" in the all-powerful PS3 is basically a custom GeForce 7800 GT, which itself is a really dated card. Any PC with decent spec can outperform PS3 and Xbox 360, maybe just not at a competitive price point.
Not to mention, everytime a new console comes out, the video chip is usually pretty outdated.
You have to upgrade your computer as well even if its outdated and the parts are cheaper to get.
The chip _must_ be outdated.
The process of engineering, manufacturing and releasing a console is a long one, specially if you want it to have a sane development experience, and bleeding edge hardware is a quickly "outdated" by if-only-so-slightly superior versions, incremental updates that amass considerably during the engineering process.
Yeah, I like how you can benchmark that. Seeing that the 360 and your laptop do the same thing of course you'd be able to tell it 'outperforms' it.
noob.
PC port on a high-end computer most certainly beat Xbox 360 port of the same game in terms of graphics. How is it not outperforming? Don't go calling people noob just because you are an Xbox 360 fanboy.
$500 laptop is not a "high-end computer". It might have a better video card on paper, but I bet it won't be able to run games in as high graphical quality.
I am not an 360 fanboy. You just can't compare a console in terms of performance to a pc. That goes for ports too, they are totally independent on system performance and dependent on developer competence (look at the COD4:MW2).
$500 laptops haven't been around for that long, yet 360s were created 5 years ago. If you were really to benchmark the CPUs and graphics against something of later years, no shit it would out perform.
Let's also negate the fact that a 360 is $270 and a $500 laptop is... $500.
Honestly, all systems have their perks and it would not be right to bash any of them, but to say a current year laptop 'outperforms' a 5 year old console is mimicking a mac ad.
noobs.
@03:37
Yes you can compare the performance of a console and PC. In case you haven't been paying attention, consoles are computers. Just closed and severely crippled ones.
They may have a bunch of parallel CPUs, but they are rapidly loosing that advantage to Intel's future i9 line which comes with 6 cores that run circles around current-gen consoles.
Let's not negate the fact that console gamers use PCs too (you aren't posting from your PS3 are you?). When you add the cost of a low-end PC and a console, it's not that different from a decent gaming PC.
I can see $500 desktops outperforming the 360 and PS3, since I built one for myself recently. But a $500 LAPTOP? Unless if you got one on sale only the $900+ laptops have any kind of a serious gaming video card on them that outperforms the consoles. Sorry but I smell BS.
compairng a 500 dollar lap top to a 299 system shame on you
Maybe when they say "long life" they mean "We're going to keep the crappy quality for as long as possible so you can further empty your wallets into our bank accounts each time it breaks!"
Or something like that anyway...
I lol'd at someone defending the 360 against a joking comment (which anon 19:07 failed to get, or was so upset by, that he had to respond).
Looking at the bright side, at least they're evading from pulling out PSP to PSP GO trainwreck unnecessary evolution (for now).
Xbox portable? They only know how to build PCs, the Xbox basically is one.
I can imagine them
stealingbuying technology, though. The development of a portable Xbox based on a highend WinMobile smartphone like the HTC topmodels should not be too hard.Alas, they would compete against Sony and Nintendo. The new device sure won't bring easy profit.
A portable would be MASSIVE though. No way around it. Microsoft seems to be a fan of bulky. The N64 was extremely slim compared to Microsoft's designs of choice.
Microsoft have never, ever built PCs.
The XBox isn't a PC either. It runs on x86 CPUs, and that's the only thing that makes it closer to a PC compared to PS3. It's not like Sony made their own CPU either.
after i bought my ps3 slim i was wondering if I should have buy the xbox 360 slim ... then it hits me it doesn't exist. exactly why I chose the ps3 over the 360
Is it because your living area is too small? Just think with all that space saved using a ps3 slim you can put and extra three ring binder.
Well, in my Console rack the PS3 Slim occupies the same space as the Xbox, so your point is rather moot.
Of course, the Xbox has an external power supply (HUGE brick), so that's a plus for the PS3.
Nevertheless, the difference in space occupation is miniscule.
The Wiimote is just an input device. You can emulate Wii games(online play also) at twice the normal speed with a decent computer, similar to last generation game systems. All you need is a cheap dongle(or not) and a IR source, then you can use the Wiimote for any program/game. You can also use a 360/PS3 "controller"(DDR/etc) as well.
What are they on thinking NATAL is god and can increase the lifespan of a console.
Shit it's a gimmick a lasergun a wiggle wiggle wand it will have 1/2 okay games and bunch of party shit and that's it.
I AM NOT going to play bayonetta as some epilectic breakdancer in front of an xbox camera
really? i totally would.
lol
knowing the health of most gamers who opted for the the more 'traditional' consoles, over the Wii, we may hear more stories of game-related cardiovascular issues... >.>
not to mention, I'm pretty sure a lot of flat-screens/HDs are going to be broken in the process
I disagree with you, Anon. There'll be a grand total of zero "okay games" for this gimmick, and its "party shit" potential is even lower than the Wii's.
Not to mention decent stuff (otherwise known as actual games) like Bayonetta are absolutely impossible to play with this turd, unless you go with "very easy automatic".
its a amped up version of the eye toy. sony doesnt even need to make a motion control design. theyre losing this war.
Yay, with neither MS or Sony going for the new technology ( and we know Nintendo won't ), PC might get priority among developers...
the pc was out when the ps2 was out and they are still omproving the graphics on that machine trust me the ps3 and maybe the 360 have a long road ahead in terms of graphics