Come on, seriously this is just silly

Why did this get approved?

Actually, it has a great deal of possibility, as several key elements point to the release of the x720 in or around late '09 or first quarter of 2010, and will be accompanied by a major IP title. The time span for the development would fit in with the release of said next iteration of the xbox, which as early as 2003, was to arrive around 2010, as it fitted in with their EX 03 White paper generated by MS Execs in early 2003 for a 7 year plane before the next xbox to be released.

One of the main ones is that for some time now, MS Xbox-Div has been working on the next wave of motherboards, one of which is the Valahlla. This sports a unified GPU and CPU and will be the basis on the next xbox, when is it due out . .late '09 early 2010 . . . hmmm . . . seems to fall inline with the possibility of the release of the x720 at that time, and the comments from Gearbox does indicate that they are working on a "major" xbox title, and who better to do a FPS than gearbox

But I can hear . ."yeah, but they said the 360 had a life span of 10 years .." Yes, the 360 will have a life cycle of 10 yrs plus, but a "life cycle" is different to a retail marketing life cycle.

While the PS2 has had a great "life cycle" . . it's not Sony's MAIN focus. This will apply to the 360, which will still be available as the PS2 is, but they will move ahead with new technology, as not to do so would be suicide. The initial 1st-Gen Xbox was simply a stepping stone into the market, much like the initial Playstation was, which was superseeded by the following iteration and basically slipped into oblivion. NOt because it was a bad console or didn't warrant it. But because it had a job to to. Get the console on the market so they could get the main one ready, yet still have a presence in the market place.

Sony are currently working on the PS4, Nintendo are working on the next iteration of the Wii and MS have been working on the x720 since the 360 launched.

These facts can be verified by reading two major publications called Opening The Xbox and Xbox 360 Uncloaked by Dean Takahashi and various other printed media.

Not all things are readily available on the net, and just because they aren't, doesn't make their facts any less viable or unreal.

I wouldn't doubt them releasing a big game with a new console so more people would buy it.

if this was halo i would NOT be a launch title... microsoft needs halo to be a console seller and a launch title doesn't show what a console can really do

@ kwitter :

No, quite the opposite. YOu could say that of Sony as well.

Why . . well within a month of the fables Ken K "retiring" Sony began in earnest with development of the PS4 . . . They began advertising for programmers and tech crew who wanted to work with the next iteration of Sony's console hardware. Have they also lost faith in the PS3?

Of course not. They just know, same as MS do and Nintendo, that in order to stay abreast of the technological curve, they must begin on the next iteration well before a life cycle starts to stop on a previous machine.

You simply can sit back and wait until a machine begins to die down or loos momentum. You need to keep that momentum up to it so that the desire to own is always there.

DO you see other electronic manafacturers waiting until they can't sell any more HDTV's CamCorders, HD Players, etc etc before beginning the next iteration. Of course not.

Once one is finished, after a shport break, the dev team are straight into the next iteration, using some of the things they may well have wanted to include in the present one but couldn't due to time restraints.

Gamers have this unreal expectation that gaming is unlike any other commercial entity. News flash . . it's not.

I kinda hope this is true as in a way i want Bungie to make something else, as to be honest i have never seen them do so... This could be the first real test for them and Gearbox are pretty good at what they do perhaps they can make a Halo i actually like.

Come on guys, The 360 is just hitting its peak, the new Xbox won't be out till around 2011 at least.

the fact it starting to need multiple discs, microsoft keeps lowering the price to keep up sales, games are starting to look better on ps3 eg. far cry 2, mirrors edge.... im not against the 360 but IMO it starting to struggle

i dont want a new xbox, damnit. just keep making new shizzle for the 360. D:

Yeh but seriously, Microsoft wouldn't be dumb enough to bring a new console out after 4 years would they ? The PS2 lasted for an amazing 7 years, like the ps2, I can see they being a another at a minimum two years left in it.

People know that The xbox is the best console out atm, unless if your a fanboy, PS3 has been a let down without a doubt, but they seem to be improving, although I can see Xbox being better for atleast a year purely because of the exclusives it has.