Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

venturebeat.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 106 posts

Re: Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

#41

Post by chaostheory »

asimuvPR wrote: post #24

IMO, the amazing thing about the 360 was how they were able to successfully continue selling it in spite of having the ring of death issues[0]. I know people who would go and buy a new machine when theirs died without thinking about it twice. One even gave me their 360 when the ONE came out. Microsoft sure knows how to build brand loyalty. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Microsoft can thank Peter Moore for doing the right thing

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-02-peter-moore-rec...

He made XBox customers happy with the added extended warranty but it cost MS over $1 billion, so he was ousted. From another perspective, one can also blame him for rushing out the 360 too early, but then that's how MS was able to gain market share at the expense of both Sony (temporarily) and Nintendo.

Re: Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

#42

Post by draw_down »

asimuvPR wrote: post #24

IMO, the amazing thing about the 360 was how they were able to successfully continue selling it in spite of having the ring of death issues[0]. I know people who would go and buy a new machine when theirs died without thinking about it twice. One even gave me their 360 when the ONE came out. Microsoft sure knows how to build brand loyalty. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Maybe... but I saw recently that the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One two-to-one. I'm not on top of that world enough to know all the reasons why, but the "ring of death" could be one.

Re: Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

#43

Post by Aleman360 »

draw_down wrote: post #42
asimuvPR wrote: post #24

IMO, the amazing thing about the 360 was how they were able to successfully continue selling it in spite of having the ring of death issues[0]. I know people who would go and buy a new machine when theirs died without thinking about it twice. One even gave me their 360 when the ONE came out. Microsoft sure knows how to build brand loyalty. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Maybe... but I saw recently that the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One two-to-one. I'm not on top of that world enough to know all the reasons why, but the "ring of death" could be one.

That's more likely explained by the fact that PS4 launched $100 cheaper and is more powerful.

Re: Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

#45

Post by cwyers »

toxican wrote: post #36
ethbro wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why the XBOX 360 has had fairly long legs. It's no longer "just a game console" and is really in the first generation of converged, internet-updatable consoles. And in that generation? Even if your console doesn't run the latest games, there's still substantial value delivered for a lot of people through Netflix, social features, casual games, etc. And MS can continue backporting their UI updates.

Is Netflix, Hulu, etc. still behind the Live Gold paywall?

No.

Re: Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

#47

Post by cwyers »

kbenson wrote: post #39
webkike wrote: post #27

I purchased a 360 a few days ago so that I could play Street Fighter 3: Third Strike with my friends from back home. It's a fine console, but I was worried about the prospects of Microsoft shutting down Xbox Live at some point.

> It's a fine console, but I was worried about the prospects of Microsoft shutting down Xbox Live at some point. Well, as long as they still need to run Xbox Live for the Xbox One, it's probably in their interest to provide the (relatively) small amount of work to keep it functioning with the Xbox 360. Plus, they charge for the service, so as long as Live makes them money (it does![1]), they are likely to keep it goi…

Especially since they're offering the ability to run Xbox 360 games on Xbox One, including support for Live. I can't imagine it's any more work at all to keep Xbox Live running for actual Xbox 360s if they need to keep it running for 360 games running in emulators.

Re: Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

#50

Post by asimuvPR »

FussyZeus wrote: post #35
asimuvPR wrote: post #24

IMO, the amazing thing about the 360 was how they were able to successfully continue selling it in spite of having the ring of death issues[0]. I know people who would go and buy a new machine when theirs died without thinking about it twice. One even gave me their 360 when the ONE came out. Microsoft sure knows how to build brand loyalty. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Speaking as a 360 owner, I think it had more to do with a really good selection of launch exclusive titles that kept people coming back. The original gen 1's were not of great quality at all, even beyond the RROD issues the console felt cheap and poorly made, the power supplies were insanely large and generated a ton of heat, etc. Microsoft sold the 360 with good exclusives, which is what Sony then did with the PS4 w…

I never really understood Microsoft wanting to be the center of the living room. Its just a weird concept to me.
Post reply on HN