As everyone knows, the videogame industry is cyclic. Roughly every five years a new generation of console technology arrives and we dutifully hand over our cash to experience the new visuals and, if we're lucky, the odd innovative new feature.
Today, in the second part of an interview with Develop, the head of Microsoft Game Studios, Phil Spencer, claims that there are no plans for Xbox 360 because Natal will indefinitely expand the lifespan of the current model.
He added"We instead want consumers and developers to know that we are all going to make a huge return on that original investment in the hardware – the one Microsoft made in building it, the one developers made in making games for it, and the investment consumers made in buying the console. In the current climate that's something people are going to appreciate much more."
At the end of last month Rich Hilleman, the chief creative officer of Electronic Arts, gave an interview to tech site Venture Beat, in which he ventured the following very brief prediction below.
"I expect we'll see a PlayStation 3.5 before we see a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox 560 before we see an Xbox 720."
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