Microsoft: Xbox 360 Support Until 2013
Microsoft has gone on record to say that it plans to support the Xbox 360 hardware until at least 2013. This comes from comments made by Microsoft Game Studios VP Shane Kim.
“We said from the beginning that we expect the Xbox 360 to have a long tail,” he told CVG. “Admittedly, we don’t have any experience doing this, but we’re pretty confident.”
He also stressed the fact that the console would be around until the conclusion of the action-RPG trilogy Too Human, the first of which is yet to be released.
The original Xbox, which launched in 2001, was replaced by the Xbox 360 in 2005. The four-year support was a “strategic decision” as revealed by Kim.