XBox 3 Already Being Planned

Microsoft EMEA veep Chris Lewis says the company is already working on its next next-generation console because "we have to".

Preliminary work is already under way, he told UK games site Kikizo.

"You can't sit back on your laurels in this business - the consumer won't let you, the developers certainly won't let us. So that's happening right now," he said.

The research and development practices of the console division are "no different than any other part of Microsoft" though, he insisted.

[truth73]

not even two years for 360 and already another in the works very sad

[Tut]

Not necessarily. Let's hope they don't cut the lifeline like they did original XBox though. I would be pretty pissed.

[specialguest]

on average, a console's lifespan before upgrading last about 5-6 yrs. you can't just wait till the last couple of yrs before planning for the next successor or else you'll be late.

this is a smart and normal procedure most companies and also Sony, Nintendo, and Micrsoft do. this is the real world, and a new product just doesn't MAGICALLY get created within a yr or two of planning. it takes several years of planning before it is completely ready for production.

i read from an old video game magazine about plans for the PS3 way back during 2001, less than a year after the PS2 was released.

[power of Green]

Sony and Nintendo are also doing it. We know more about PS4 than we do about Xbox 720. Fact.

[NextGen24Gamer]

Do you even understand how this stuff works? Do you think it only takes a year to create a new console? It takes several years. R & D ect.... I'm glad they are already thinking ahead. In 3 years I want a new console. Tech changes so rapidly....The ps2 was outdated when the xbox launched 2 years later. I couldn't stand playing a ps2 game after playing the original xbox. It just wasn't the same. So in 3 years...tech will be much more advanced....and I will be more than ready to move on to bigger and better things. After playing the 360 its hard for me to play original xbox games. So, complain all you want...Some of us gamers actually understand and we are ok with a console having a 5 year life cycle. once again....Thanks Microsoft.

[power of Green]

Don't come back in here with you're Ape brained thoughs.

[Tut]

Are you all referring to my post as #2?

[power of Green]

Don't come back in here with you're Ape brained thoughs.

[Tut]

You're an idiot then. I was the first person to say it wasn't necessarily a bad idea. So you actually disagreed with yourself initially, moron.

As for my comment on the XBox's support as of now, the console is almost literally dead. And by XBox I don't mean the XBox 360, I mean the original XBox. I thought I would clarify that for you since you don't seem to grasp text very well.

[kmis87]

Do you even realize what you typed? What you typed literally translates into this in English:

Do not come back in here with you are Ape brained thoughs.

From what I can tell you just called him and "Ape brained though," whatever a though is.

[power of Green]

Have no idea what you're point is or if you're trying to insult me but coming in here hoping and praying MS doesn't cut them short when these guy's have been proven to be pro Sony is low. Sould i have said get out of here with you're hair brain logic. (don't come in here with you're ape brain thoughts)sounds better the way i said it the first time. I wish i knew what language you were speaking in post #4.4. And i'v been reading you're post "TUT" I don't buy you're BS you're mouth has you insulting people all over the board. You lean towards Sony don't lie you're about to fall over.

[kmis87]

You're is NOT a possessive. It means you are. Whenever you repeatedly make that mistake (even after I dedicated a post to pointing it out) it just makes whatever point you may have seem less valid.

And you did NOT say ape brained thoughts. You said "Ape brained thoughs." TWICE.

In any case, Tut's point should make perfect sense to you. Hopefully for all 360 owners or future 360 owners, the machine won't become obsolete in 2009. That's all he said in his post, and I think it's something that people can agree on.

[power of Green]

Whatever! what kind of person goes around checking peoples spelling on the net. lol "though" was a copied and paste typo. TuT's a fan boy and spelling doesn't make peoples post more valid than others as proven by that Fanboy comment towards the end of your post. Now get off my Ballzz. Let us worry about what we spend our money on fanboy. come in here to post out of spite. LETS MOVE ON NOTHING TO SEE HERE. #11 IT MEANS SOMETHING TO THESE SONY FANBOYS THAT WON'T EVEN TOUCH 360 BUT WORRY MORE THAN WE DO.

[Eternal E 808]

knew anything about the xbox life cycle you would know that 2 years after the first xbox was released they were planing for its next console.

[Bill Nye]

Pff... Microsoft is way behind...

Sony is planning so far ahead they designed PS9 before PS2 was even out...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[D3acon]

Man that was awsome, basically the guy was running around and the world around him was created by the ps10. It was a cool commercial. (yes I'm serious there was a ps10 commercial)

[D3acon]

Its good to see pass your on hand, but I hope microsoft will have a better transition than they did with the xbox to the xbox 360. I believe currently they are not even supporting the xbox anymore and are slowly piecemealing the backwards compatibility. So I hope they have learned from their mistakes.

My predicitions for the PS4;

1)no disks, or a limited number. Mostly everything will be e-distrubeted.

2)You will be able to game across platforms. Between Pc and console players.

3)There will be a custom controller which you can shape and take the form of any controller you might need for a game. (motion Sensing and Rumble)

4)CD, Dvd, and what ever else is out(blu-ray?), burner.

Just some fun things to play around with. ;-)

[shotty]

Well it takes 1 year to plan the console, 3 years to research and develop the components and then 1 year to market and test the console. That gives us 5 years. 2010 nov is when it's coming.

[kmis87]

Does that mean the 360 was in the works before one year before the original xbox was released?

[BIadestarX]

I think this is a good thing. It shows microsoft if commited to the xbox; unlike some sony fanboys keep saying, "Microsoft will quit, because it's losing too much money". There you have it folks. what would I prefer, for microsoft to plan ahead and take all the time they need to design and built a better console, or still be wondering what their online service is going to be like less than a month before launch? Also, now that microsoft can be considered a hardware manufacturer it must do what hardware manufacturers do once they finish their product, start working on the next. It is sad that most of you fanboys trully believe that it takes a company 1-3 years to plan, design and built a console. Why do you ask Sony why they delayed the PS3 more than once? tip: should have started planning sooner.

[Eternal E 808]

so heres my proof read were it says development,"case closed"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Marriot VP]

TO THOSE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS

Microsoft and even sony, when a console gets launched the hardware team of computer and electric engineers immediately start developing and hypothesising on the next console. It's how it works. Even in a previous Moore interview he said they give the xbox team a 4 week vacation to hawaii or wherever than they immediately start the next xbox.

THIS DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING

[Marriot VP]

think about it, what's a huge hardware team gonna do after their jobs done with the 360 or PS3. THEIR GONNA MOVE ON.

[Karibu]

when to give up early ;D

[coolfool]

as far as hardware is concerned doesn't microsofts developement process basically involve them going to intel and asking them what will be their latest chip in three or four years time, going to nvidia (or maybe some other graphics firm) and doing the same regarding their latest chip and then just piecing them together? They don't really develope anything themselves.