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Which will be retired next, Xbox 360 or PS3 ?

sörine;115419121 said:
Speaking of 1st party does SCE have any major PS3 games still coming or is it just indie pickups? Microsoft announcing Forza Horizon 2 for 360 really surprised me and made me wonder if 360 might actually eek out longer 1st party support?
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Perhaps The Last guardian? :p Anyway, there's still japanese game coming to the PS3 so it won't die off anytime soon. I'm thinking of game such as Tales of Xillia 2 (already out in Japan), Kingdom Heart 2.5 HD ReMIX, Persona 5, Xblaze Code: Embryo, Arcana Heart 3: Love Max!!!!! Beside those, I expect more niche title to be announced until 2016 at least.

It won't stop the PS3 from being on life support, but should help the system outlive the 360 by a year or two.
 
360, JRPG's will keep the PS3 going for at least 2 more years. I see 360 exclusive games as stopping by the end of the year, middle of next.
 
I retired my 360 years ago. I assume MS will be the first to pull the plug. The PS3 still has plenty of support, the 360 does not.
 
I think the PS3 will actually be the first to go of the two.

Keep in mind that the 360 is/was easier to develop for than the PS3 (Lolcellprocessor). That makes a pretty big difference for any dev looking to make a game that's not just going to be a port of an annual game (Cod/Madden) or that isn't just abusing an engine and system with slight tweaks to make their own games (low budget JRPGs). And if MS ever eventually turns the 360 into a smaller/cheaper set top box to compete with the FireTV & AppleTV, it'll obviously give it a huge lifespan boost compared to the PS3.

We can't really base it off the past gen (Xbox/PS2) because the playing field was really uneven then for longevity. The PS2 blew the XBox out of the water in terms of sales, plus MS released the 360 a year earlier than Sony came out with the PS3, so the XBox was left in the dust quicker anyway. You can't really just abandon a console with such a massive install base like the PS2, whereas the XBox's community was pretty much set up for the 360 or on a PS2 by the time the XBox was ready to go.
 
I think both will live on for a really long time. PS+ and GwG have an opportunity to make them amazing boxes for the cheap gamer that is always a generation behind and it may just be extra money in the bank for devs/publisher that get on these services and/or see continued revenue from DLC. They just need to embrace more robust storage options (External USB and in the 360's case, USB not limited to 16 or 32 gb chunks) imo and continue with price drops. A new PS3 still being damn near $300 is kinda crazy.
 
some people seem to think that its Sales of the console, others tend to think its game releases



I myself thought the OP meant which console will you still be playing
 
Of the two, 360 will be retired first, but I think it will be at least 2 or 3 years before we start seeing its decline. Forza Horizon 2 may be an outlier, or it may be the way of doing things in Microsoft's camp for a little while. But PS2 was supported and systems continued to be produced for so long I assume they will follow the same formula for PS3.
 
360
When: 2017-2018
Why: Support dwindles as more devs fully master the XBOX One. Meanwhile, JRPGs on the PS3 (Whose support officially ends in 2020) are still being released like hot cakes.
 
Depends on the market... and only if you don't include China.

In North America... PS3.
In Japan... Xbox 360 (although it really sort of is already, isn't it).
And neither of the above will happen until late 2016 at the earliest.
 
Xbox before Playstation. It's looking slightly more dead in the water at this point. I imagine crossgen support for both systems will quickly die after this year. EA and Activision will continue to release their titles though.
 
360 is hanging out a lot longer than I expected. It is impressive how it still sells so well and the PS3 isn't going anywhere.
 
Red Chocobo said:
360 will be next. Just going by MS's past.

The PS2 only just stopped production last year.
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Going by MS' past, one would assume that the 360 would have seen a successor first, but that wasn't the case, and even MS got caught with their pants down with Sony beating them to the punch (how the hell did that even happen when MS launched a year earlier and should have had the upper hand in the launch schedule, what a fluster cluck). As far as support, I believe it will all depend on demand. If all of Sony users migrate from PS3 to PS4, then I can see Sony moving their focus there, same with Xbox users, it will depend on the user base.
 
X360 will retire first. MS has already moved on to producing games on the Xbone and not much left coming out besides third party ports.

Even though I see the X360 retiring first, both consoles will still be on the market for a while and have another 2-3 in them because they do more than just play video games, still have a large library of games to sell to people, plus the current lack of native backwards compatibility on the new consoles will keep them around for a bit longer.
 
Going from previous generations, it's not even debatable. However, I don't know what the situation is with either company selling in China, and if they are going to be selling previous gen consoles there or only new. Hell, they may already be, I don't know.
 
Xbox 360, no doubt. The system has had very poor 1st/2nd party support since E3 2010, & the support for it today is deader than dead now.

PS3 however, still continues to get a lot of support, especially within Japanese 3rd party publishers.
 
Ps3 will be supported in Japan ATLEAST untill 2020. Microsoft will drop the 360 like a hot rock the first chance they get. My guess is late 2016.
 
Xbox 360.

PS3 will still get releases and support, at least in Japan. 360 is done everywhere once cross-gen is done (as it's already done in Japan and needs continuing Western support to continue to exist).
 
360 will go before PS3. Sony has a lot of mindshare in developing countries compared to Microsoft, which are the major markets for obsolete consoles.

It's still a long way off from being cheap enough, though.
 
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