Also, that picture caption is epic.

Well of course the next xbox is in teh works. and it won't have such a silly name. It'll be called xbox armadillo machine 3000. far better.

Also the reason Atari floundered after the 2600 was because they, for some reason, thought their console would be the leading product for years and so they did very little R&D for a newer console. Amstrad did the same which always makes me chuckle seeing as people like to take business advice from Alan Sugar these days.

Well considering the fact that MS likely realizes that they are going to be hampered by disc space sooner rather than later and that they have had massive hardware problems with the current 360 I would say a completely new MS console might make alot of sense. Hopefully they've learned from their mistakes and will make a quality one this time.

They couldn't be stupid enough to call it that. Right?

Of course it's already in the works, they haven't decided on a name or look yet though.
Don't ask.

Crazy rumor.

I like to get at LEAST 4-5 years out of a system before a new one is released so rumor ain't a good one. Hopefully this is just a name grab and not news for an early release. We need a library of games before a newer next-gen console is released.

Honsetly guys, come 2010 it will have been 5 years since it's launch which is damn well long enough for a new console to come out. The original xbox came out in 2000 if I remembe right, and the 360 was 2005. That was 5 years as well. If they didn't already have a new console in R&D then I would be really worried because it takes a good 4 years to design a solid piece of machine. Don't get mad, get glad. As long as the next one is 100% BC with 360 I will be stoked.

@Promagnum

Please tell me why it was called the 360, I really want to know.

@Brandon and Mix - The 360 was released 4 years and 7 days after the original Xbox.
Xbox = November 15, 2001
360 = November 22, 2005



@Scrixx - Microsoft didn't want the Xbox TWO sounding inferior to the PS THREE. Hence we have the THREE-SIXTY.

I just threw up in my mouth!

It's quite simple. During the combative hush hush surrounding PS3 and Xbox2 prior to e304 & 05. Microsoft changed the name from to be more appealing in comparison to Playstation 3. Being that Xbox would only be 2, and much like the ego of many unskilled actors, they didn't want to seem less than Sony.
Was during the period when all the advertising and marketing bullshit of Sony vs MS was taking place in the industry.
When I was at a dev convention is like 04 there were Microsoft execs for the gaming branch talking about how to 'build gaming consumer and non-gaming consumer interest' by the product title. Few onths later....360.

So in otherwords;
Mommy I want that one!
Which one, the playstation 3?
No, the other one.
But honey that one says Xbox 2. I think 3 is the newest.

Make sense?
Which was kind of funny cause it really didn't hit the internet or common knowledge until much later.

Scrixx, I think because its saying that with our console. The graphics are so much better. It's like doing a whole 360 from what you're used too.

In reality I think it's called Xbox 360 because Sony was releasing the PS3. How would it look if they had called it Xbox2. It would have been a 2, less than 3 and seem dated. So they thought Xbox 3, but they'll ask. Where was part 2? Lets add 60. 360! There ya go.

Of course they're working on the successor to the Xbox 360. The same as Nintendo is working on the successors to the Wii and the DS, and Sony is working on the successors to the PS3 and PSP. By the time each game system launches, the console manufacturers are ALL already looking at what's next. The same's pretty much true throughout the electronics industry--Apple's probably 80% of the way to their second-gen iPhone at this point, TiVo's probably working on the Series 4 TiVo, and they're probably going to start working on the successors to all the TVs that get shown off at CES about a week before they get shown off at CES.

The interesting part of this is that Microsoft moved a first-party or second-party title to their next-gen system. That gives some kind of indicator of the timeframe for the new system. Fable took 4 years to make. Halo 3 took 3. Kameo took an ungodly long number of years to make, but to be fair, that went through the development hell of transitioning consoles not once but twice. If this is a first-party title that's early in development, that would put a next-gen Xbox around Christmas 2010 or 2011--which sounds about right.

Also, hopefully, what this means is that they've got a AAA team working on a high-end game and offering input to the hardware designers. Kinda like what Nintendo did with Super Mario 64 and the N64, but hopefully not quite as tightly-knit.

great..........

Hopefully they're not installing the red lights of death in the 720. Actually I hope they don't even put 4 lights on it. One light. That's all you need to tell us its on.

I got my 360 back recently. A replacement unit. It had the red lights of death as well. So now i'm still without a 360 for another month. That's twice now. Do you think at some point they'll just send me a brand new system that brings forza2?

This is the same thing as lines of code. Algorithms for real time shadows existed since somewhere in the 80's but only a few years ago the hardware was actually capable of reproducing the effect.

So it can be true that Microsoft is already researching for its next game machine. But that name is just silly. If true, it's probably a codename.

Terminator: The Xbox Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2010. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Xbox begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Xbox fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Xbox knows the Russian counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here.

Welcome to the arms race. Leave your wallet at the door.

The same happened for Halo 3 wasn't it? I seem to remember reading somewhere that they were going to put it on Xbox, but then shifted to 360

I just wanna play Gears of War online. I miss it. It has the world record for a game holding my interest nonstop for more than a year now. It's as much fun as it was a year ago. It doesn't let up.

@Jim

or the Xbox 411. What's their sales pitch for that you wonder?

Xbox411: Get in the KNOW.

I just hope they don't release it soon though.

How about the Xbox 2600?