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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 3923042" data-attributes="member: 4779">Certainly true.  That's why the exclusive content is so important for 2008.They could, but then again that waves the middle finger at their Wii market.  And it still wouldn't have any more game selection than the last 3 generations.More likely than not, MS will abandon the 360 as they did with the Xbox.  They're not big on backwards compatibility.  Recreating what Sony has done with the PS2 is going to be awfully hard, especially considering the lack of support for all genres on the 360.Nintendo isn't a player in the HD scene, so they are out.  If MS wants to drop a new Xbox on the masses in 3 years it will be starting from scratch in the true HD market.  The PS3 will already have a very large install base and a huge library at that point along with a machine that is already plenty capable of doing everything the new Xbox will.  And they won't be charging a monthly fee with it.  So that MS next gen system better be really good and be 10x more reliable than the POS 360's they pushed out at launch and have only recently fixed.MS did well so far by jumping the gun and releasing the 360 when they did.  I'm curious to see what will happen when the PS3 actually starts giving the 360 some competition.  MS has burned lots of good will with these multiple systems, upgrades and overpriced accessories like the hard drives (not that either of the other two are any better).It's really nice to have both players in the game so far.  Sony may be lagging at the moment but the competition should really benefit the gaming population in general.  MS could learn a lesson from Sony about hardware and Sony could learn a lesson from MS about what people want from an online console.</blockquote>

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