Did Microsoft Kill Chances of Future Success by Banning of Modded XBox 360s?
Note: This article could be read in a way that makes it appear that it is in support of modding or hacking video game systems. It is not meant to sound that way at all. It is meant to take a look at the future security of the Xbox line since Microsoft’s banning of modded Xbox 360s. It does not take me to tell you that one of the biggest video game industry stories of this year is Microsoft’s banning of modded Xbox 360s. As a business advisor and writer, this leads me to speculate about the chances of another successful video game system coming in the future from Microsoft. The original Xbox was released in 2001 in the United States. The Xbox 360 was released in 2005, so with the Microsoft product lifecycle (since Microsoft like to come out with a complete revamp of the products it offers every few years), there is a good chance that they are currently working on the next version of the Xbox somewhere in the dark tunnels under Microsoft University in Seattle. While the exact numbers of
