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BlackNMild2k1:
Sony is working on PlayStation 4
What has been taking them so long? Café is 2012, MS has plans to be ready before end of 2012... and Sony is just starting on PS4?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-26-sony-is-working-on-playstation-4
--- Quote ---Sony has confirmed that work on a "future platform" to follow the PS3 "is already under way".
Sony's executive vice president and chief financial officer Masaru Kato made the revelation on a conference call to investors today. He was asked to explain increased research and development (R&D) costs.
"For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life," he said, "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."
Kato's comments are in direct contrast those of Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai's. Hirai said, three months ago in March, that "a near-future PS4 or next-generation home console is not something that we are even debating now".
Hirai stressed that Sony wasn't "even at the half-way point" in PS3's lauded 10-year plan.
This console cycle may be destined to last longer than previous generations, but there are already rumours of top-tier publishing partners receiving prototype dev kits of Microsoft's new Xbox.
Meanwhile Nintendo has plans to formerly unveil Wii 2 - codenamed Project Cafe - at E3 next month.
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Sony might be left out in the cold this time as xStream720 gets all the multiplat love.
Ceric:
Oh the irony if the PS3 becomes the PS2 of the next generation. I'm not so surprise to see an uptick on the R&D since its clear Nintendo is making their move.
Ian Sane:
With Cafe due to be shown at E3, it makes sense that we're hearing about successors for the other consoles as well. The PS4 might be years away but it looks good for Sony to have it be known that something is on the way so that they don't like they're behind the times while Nintendo goes forward. The goal is to convince us not to get all excited about Cafe because Sony the PS4 is on the way (in a couple years) and will top it (or so they'll imply). Hell, Sony did this with the Dreamcast.
BlackNMild2k1:
Sony: No Plans For PS3-type Investment For Future Consoles
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/05/27/sony_earnings/
--- Quote ---Sony's massive initial expenditures for the PlayStation 3 lead to years of losses. This is something that apparently won't be repeated for future platforms.
During an investors briefing today (via Nikkei), Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato was asked if Sony expects its games division to continue to maintain its recent profitability. Different from the major losses of Sony Group as a whole, the company's games business turned profitable over the fiscal year.
Kato noted that the main factor in the losses for the past few years has been the big difference in sales price and cost for the PS3 system. Sony even spent billions to create its own semi conductor facilities.
This is something that won't happen in the future. The semiconductor business is changing, said Kato. "It is no longer thinkable to have a huge initial financial investment like that of the PS3."
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So there will be no $900 PS4 being sold for $600 this time around. But if Sony is just now increasing their R&D budget towards locking down specs for the next generation..... wouldn't that mean they are atleast 2 years out from having a chip ready to go unless they are using something off the shelf?
If they have been building a chip this whole time, then why the sudden budget increase unless they are just now pushing everything out of passive research and into aggressive? and even still, do you think it will lead to a rushed late 2013 launch following launches of both the Café & 720?
--- Quote from: Ian Sane on May 26, 2011, 06:11:53 PM ---With Cafe due to be shown at E3, it makes sense that we're hearing about successors for the other consoles as well. The PS4 might be years away but it looks good for Sony to have it be known that something is on the way so that they don't like they're behind the times while Nintendo goes forward. The goal is to convince us not to get all excited about Cafe because Sony the PS4 is on the way (in a couple years) and will top it (or so they'll imply). Hell, Sony did this with the Dreamcast.
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Actually, we've been hearing details about the X720 since before the Café. There was an article on the chip they chose back in Dec of last year I believe.
Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - to hit in 2012? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~
mix that with the comments from the AMD guy over on NeoGAF (see the rumor consolidation in my sig) and we've had more info about X720 before we knew anything about Café.[/size][/font]
Ian Sane:
With the PS3 being such a beast how does Sony top it without an underwhelming "two PS3's duct taped together" situation? The PS3 was a dumb approach but they have to justify the existence of a new console some way. I don't think a minor upgrade is going to fly. Yeah the Wii did it but it also turned off the market that KNEW it was a meager upgrade in the process and it relied on an innovative gimmick. Sony already released the Move as a peripheral so merely including it wouldn't fly as a new system and I don't think Sony can come up with a neat gimmick like Nintendo can. They just don't have it in them.