Sony Retreats from Questionable PlayStation 4 Comment
Last week, some loose lips let slip the word that a PlayStation 3 successor was currently under development. Stating that the future project is “already under way,” Sony’s executive Vice President and CFO, Masaru Kato, stirred up some controversy with his comment that has now warranted a follow up from another Sony source.
Contradictory to the current 10 year lifespan promised by Sony for the PlayStation 3, Masaru Kato’s comment seemingly pointed only at a new PlayStation home console, thereby confirming for the first time that Sony was preparing for the next generation of gaming. Said Kato:
For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life, but this is a platform business, so for the future platform — when we’ll be introducing what product I cannot discuss that — but our development work is already under way, so the costs are incurred there.
Japan, however, was reportedly surprised by the large amount of coverage this statement was receiving in the west, and made it clear that the platform in question was Sony’s NGP/Vita, and not a PlayStation 4. Japan’s J-Cast news looked into the situation further by asking Sony for any official comment, to which they were told, “We have nothing to announce at this time.”
Regardless of the fact that an official announcement of the PlayStation 4 is quite honestly the last thing expected from Sony this year, if you were a multi-billion dollar corporation, would you announce your next big investment nonchalantly a week before a widely publicized and highly broadcasted event? We wouldn’t either.
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13 Responses to “Sony Retreats from Questionable PlayStation 4 Comment”
At next E3 they SHOULD announce it.Too late and the next Xbox will have the edge again in terms of userbase and sales.Do not make the same mistakes Sony
To be fair. The Xbox came out before the PS2 and the PS2 did far better in sales. Playing the long game seems to be the better course of action.
Ps2 release date March 4 2000 in Japan, October 26 2000 in North America. Xbox release date November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan.
I wasn’t even paying attention to game consoles when I first got a ps2 and I knew that but those are the specific dates to prove it.
The only reason te Xbox 360 did better then the PS3 at the beginning was the PS3 high price. People back then were more interested in the PS3 after the success of the PS2. But ultimately the cheaper Xbox made once Playstation players move over.
I dont want a PS4 just yet, the PS3 has only been out for 4 1/2 years and I’ve only had mine for 2 1/2 years, every month I buy a new game and my PS3 has shown its worth and I want it to show that the $500 i spent was well worth it (which it definitely has). I dont want the PS4 released for at least another 2 years.
I say that them even talking about the PS4 this year would pull the carpet out from under everything they have going for them (NGP and all the games for PS3) I think next year (2012) at the end of the show they will tease it. Then the year after that (2013) they will show it off and release it the year after that (2014).
If they arent working on the PS4 then i dont pee in the shower.
Ok people…business 101 + common sense once again here. Sony IS working on the PS4, but its stupid to announce it early for fear of slowing down sales of the PS3. If we take a little history lesson, SEGA made this same mistake (among many) by announcing the Saturn only 6 months after the release of the 32X. The announcement of the Saturn completely blew their own console, the 32x, out of the water.
Your reasoning is spot on, but the Sega part, heh heh heh, it’s not like the 32X had much to live for anyway, it was a scam in disguise from the beginning, just a “quick buck” and they paid the price. Now if you talk about the Saturn, they did kill it that one prematurely (and purposely) announcing the Dreamcast as early as 1997 (the Saturn was only 2 years old but already a complete failure outside Japan). So it’s the losers who announce and release successors first. The 360 is the successor of a failure, and that’s why it released just 4 years after the original Xbox (which was discontinued shortly afterwards), and now Nintendo is going ahead and releasing a new console…oh wait…hmmm, does that make them “losers” going by my logic? pretty much, yeah. It’s not how you start but how you finish.
Talk about your back pedaling. Nicely done though.
Am I the only one that knew this is what they meant in the first place? I don’t find this backpedaling at all, it’s clarifying for people that assumed they said “OMG PS4 NEXT MONTH CAUSE WE’RE WORKING ON IT LOLOLOLOL” and got all excited for nothing.
In my opinion, if I were a multi-billion dollar corporation I would only announce new software and hardware if those software and hardware were coming out in 1-2 years not 3 or more years.
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