"I've been here for the launch of Xbox 360. I was here for the launch of Kinect. This is far and away the biggest launch we've ever done," he said. "It's the most hardware we've ever produced. It's the most we've ever pre-sold. We're preselling a little over 2-to-1 from what we did with Xbox 360. The momentum on launch has been really good.
Though it may seem like an incredibly long prediction seeing as consumers and developers alike have long been lamenting the eight year length of the current generation, with Ubisoft recently explaining it wants this generation to last five years, it's actually not that surprising. Microsoft recently announced it plans to support the Xbox 360 until at least 2016, which means it'll have been around for an impressive 11 years at that stage.