How many Xbox live arcade titles will still exist when the service is shutdown

[ProgrammingAce]

Xbox.next has been in development since at least 2006...

[j_factor]

Uh why are we talking about a new xbox360? It's only been out for 3 years.

Xbox was only out for 4 years when 360 launched. If MS were to keep the same life span, a new Xbox would come out by the end of this year.

[G-Boobie]

Xbox was only out for 4 years when 360 launched. If MS were to keep the same life span, a new Xbox would come out by the end of this year.

Xbox old school never made money. Considering how much Microsoft is still spending on marketing the 360, how hard it's pushing NXE, and how many games are scheduled for release in 2009 and 2010, I'm not worried about a new Xbox anytime soon. The 360 has just started making money: I think they'll try and milk that as long as they can.

[E Nice]

Memory card 512 MB:
-Geometry Wars

I've seen some that also had Worms on it.

[Nionel]

Xbox was only out for 4 years when 360 launched. If MS were to keep the same life span, a new Xbox would come out by the end of this year.

True, but I read on Kotaku a week or two ago that MS has no plans to rush out a new system. Last estimate I heard is that they were going to wait until around 2012 to launch the next Xbox.

[heybtbm]

True, but I read on Kotaku a week or two ago that MS has no plans to rush out a new system. Last estimate I heard is that they were going to wait until around 2012 to launch the next Xbox.

I read the same article. It's due to the worldwide financial crisis and next gen tech not really that much of a jump over current tech. They also credit it to the Wii's success despite it being last gen technology. This generation will most likely go 6-7 years instead of 4-5. Fine with me.

[G-Boobie]

I read the same article. It's due to the worldwide financial crisis and next gen tech not really that much of a jump over current tech. They also credit it to the Wii's success despite it being last gen technology. This generation will most likely go 6-7 years instead of 4-5. Fine with me.

Amen, and pass the wireless controller.

[j_factor]

True, but I read on Kotaku a week or two ago that MS has no plans to rush out a new system. Last estimate I heard is that they were going to wait until around 2012 to launch the next Xbox.

Maybe that will be the cause of the world ending.

Anyway, isn't MS losing money on all the warranties? I would think they would want to move on, to something more reliable. I don't actually think a new Xbox will be out this year, but next year, maybe?

[Famidrive-16]

I hope the 2012 thing is true, since I just bought a 360 less than a month ago...

[Nature Boy]

Why should I be worried again? As long as my 360 runs I can still play the game, right? So what's the fuss again?

Sure you can resell games you've bought on disc if you don't like 'em. But what would EB give you for a game that was $5 brand new anyway? A quarter? A dollar? I can see the sign now:

"Trade in 20 DLC games and get Braid 2 for free!"

I need to play the DLC I've bought more, that's for sure, but I regret buying none of it. Getting a game for $5-$15 is fantastic IMO.

[hellfire]

by the time the next gen systems come out their will be an xbox live arcade emulater

[dr101z]

"Trade in 20 DLC games and get Braid 2 for free!"

Nah, with GameStop it would be more like "Trade in 40 DLC games and get Braid 2 for 50% off, but only after purchasing two used titles at full price. (NOTE: Shredded waterlogged manual and our generic cover insert are extra.)"

[G-Boobie]

Maybe that will be the cause of the world ending.

Anyway, isn't MS losing money on all the warranties? I would think they would want to move on, to something more reliable. I don't actually think a new Xbox will be out this year, but next year, maybe?

The way I understand it, Microsoft wrote off one billion dollars for the projected cost of Xbox console repairs against their earnings for whatever quarter it was that they initiated the 'red ring warranty'. In terms of pure accounting, they don't count money spent for the warranty anymore. The Xbox division is profitable, and has been for a couple quarters now.

I'm guessing 2011 at the earliest. They've invested heavily in NXE, the Netflix streaming service, and XNA. They'd be crazy to undermine that by initiating another platform launch in the worst economic climate since the seventies while their games division has just now started making money.

[s1lence]

MS are money hungry fools, just like Nintendo and Sony are. Don't kid yourself, if console manufacturers think they can get away with not continuing to support certain titles or better yet, can sell you a slightly improved version of the same game you already own for more money, they are gonna do it. I'm sorry, but look at how many games can no longer be played on-line for various consoles because the servers are eventually taken down. This is no different than that situation and certainly no different than console backwards compatibility. You do understand that one reason that Sony no longer provides backwards compatibility with the PS3 is that they want to either force you to buy a PS2 or pay to download PSOne and PS2 games on PSN rather than resorting to buying the same games for far less at a swap meet or Gamestop, right?

Just to be clear on this "LACK OF SUPPORT" bullshit. The original Xbox 1 LIVE arcade games are still supported and still function. As long as Live is around the games will be supported and available to download.

[WhatsMyUsername]

Just pointing out that the recent xbox magazine stated that the new 360's being made are hopefully un-red-ringable. Yes i make up words. So if it is true and there newly made consoles can't get it or at least the risk is severely reduced they won't waste much money on fixing them.

[PapaStu]

Just pointing out that the recent xbox magazine stated that the new 360's being made are hopefully un-red-ringable. Yes i make up words. So if it is true and there newly made consoles can't get it or at least the risk is severely reduced they won't waste much money on fixing them.

The new heat syncs, smaller chips, and different Motherboard layouts have greatly reduced the RRoD's over the last year+. However, GPU's are still failing at an alarming rate, and the disc drives are shitting out far too often as well. Those problems are not covered by MS, do not create a 'RRoD' upon failure and if your system goes out of warranty when it shits out it's +$99 bucks for fixing.

But none of that has anything to do with a lack of XBLA support. Heck, all I could play when my disc drives died was XBLA titles while I waited for my coffins.

[SegaAges]

The games will still function after xbox live shuts down... which is incredably unlikely as long as microsoft stays in business. It doesn't take much hardware to run the auth servers.

Nah, that company is kinda small bro, we don't know.






Kidding. I am only kidding, don;t punch me.

[j_factor]

Just pointing out that the recent xbox magazine stated that the new 360's being made are hopefully un-red-ringable. Yes i make up words. So if it is true and there newly made consoles can't get it or at least the risk is severely reduced they won't waste much money on fixing them.

They've been saying this for a couple years now. I remember when the Elite came out with its chip revision, and there was hype that supposedly the new things would be reliable. They may be a bit more reliable compared to launch units, but they still red ring a lot.