Sony saying no to PS4

[CMvan46]

Hmmm.... I still think they are a year off. A electronic giant company like Sony would not miss an opportunity like E3 to reveal this console. They are pushing Vita right now and I think next year at e3 we see it unvieled and 2013 release.

 

[icelt]

Well a Christmas 2012 launch might still be possible if these rumors are anywhere close to being true.

 

[Bigbazz]

Rumours won't be true, I doubt sony would go about not making a big thing about it. If sony arent making a big thing about it then I wouldnt expect it anytime soon. Production of PS4 in 2011 is a load of poop.

 

[Robin]

If its true that they are going down the Kinect route then it doesnt suprise me as wand based motion control was a fad which is kinda over now. Move not returning for the next console generation felt like a given in my opinion because it was a quick (and late) fix to stem the flow of money from the casual market to Nintendo.

Also I always thought that Sony's new console would come way eariler than expected. Technology has moved forward so fast and all its competitors are well on the way with their next consoles so it makes sense. 10 years really isnt feasible anymore as there were better graphics cards available in PC's even months before the PS3 released!

Of course these are all rumours but it does all sound plausible.

 

[CaptainHarlock]

Oh look! A website I've never heard of is saying the PS4 is coming next year with absolutely no evidence to back it up! Of course I believe that! Why wouldn't I?!

Like all video game news these days, rumor and speculation. Trace it back to the source, and then laugh it off.

 

[Bonefork]

Oh look! A website I've never heard of is saying the PS4 is coming next year with absolutely no evidence to back it up!

Kotaku is a well-known web site (parent company Gawker Media - Engadget, Jalopnik) and producing parts is hardly the same thing as shipping boxed units.

If you think anyone can assemble 3 million working PS4s - whatever that entails - and have them boxed and ready to ship in less than a year's time you're out of your mind.

If they're not already working on prototypes by now they'd never make a 2012 launch... I mean, when did you think they develop launch games? It takes longer than a few weeks to make a game. You can bet your ass there's people at least in the planning stages for games for PS4 right now.

 

[CaptainHarlock]

Kotaku is a well-known web site (parent company Gawker Media - Engadget, Jalopnik) and producing parts is hardly the same thing as shipping boxed units.

If you think anyone can assemble 3 million working PS4s - whatever that entails - and have them boxed and ready to ship in less than a year's time you're out of your mind.

If they're not already working on prototypes by now they'd never make a 2012 launch... I mean, when did you think they develop launch games? It takes longer than a few weeks to make a game. You can bet your ass there's people at least in the planning stages for games for PS4 right now.

I'm not taking about Kotaku, I'm taking about the original source, DigiTimes, which is a Chinese website that released a simple statement with little else to back that claim. It amounted to nothing more than "take our word for it".

 

[icelt]

Welp it wasn't that long ago that we received leaked word of the unannounced PS3 Slim via a somewhat blurry pic purportedly taken from a Filipino street vendor. Many people scoffed at that "source of information" as well... and it turned out to be 100% true. The internet age has changed the news landscape drastically. So as high volume computer and electronics components are indeed manufactured in places such as Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and China we must, at the very least, take information emanating from these locations as very possibly being legitimate.

 

[kimi123]

Lol no. Why would they make and that too 20 million of them The last guardin, FFXIIIvs and many more game games are in dev on PS3.

 

[CaptainHarlock]

Welp it wasn't that long ago that we received leaked word of the unannounced PS3 Slim via a somewhat blurry pic purportedly taken from a Filipino street vendor. Many people scoffed at that "source of information" as well... and it turned out to be 100% true. The internet age has changed the news landscape drastically. So as high volume computer and electronics components are indeed manufactured in places such as Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and China we must, at the very least, take information emanating from these locations as very possibly being legitimate.

For every one story that is true, how many aren't? Yes, the internet has changed the news landscape dramatically, however that doesn't mean there still isn't misinformation out there.

 

[LaBounti]

I'm not buying the 20million for 2012 unless they are going the Vita/Xbox route and use off the shelf parts to release a console.

I can dig 2012 if it 100% backwards compatible. I'm all in if that is true, thats all I ask. I do not expect Sony to make a technology leap with PS4. It just needs to be less than $500 and run games in 1080p/60 . I refuse to abandon this library of games I have.

 

[Moot]

There would be no point in bringing out a new console unless it was true next gen leap.
The new one would need to have and end life to 2023. Sony do not want a console in the 2020's to have something just a bit better than the PS3.
Sony could create a large leap by just using more PS3 cells and memory in a PS4. And it would not make the console too expensive?

 

[crunchMONKY78]

I think it makes sense to at least start on something. This gen of console's won't last forever, so to have
something to release later down the road, they have to start somewhere right? Personally I'm still expecting
a few more years out of the PS3, simply to justify how much money I paid for it.

 

[icelt]

For every one story that is true, how many aren't? Yes, the internet has changed the news landscape dramatically, however that doesn't mean there still isn't misinformation out there.

Misinformation is ever present no matter the medium. However it is also true we can't categorically dismiss a source just because it originates from a website we've never heard of in a far away land.

This news item is worth considering IF workers at the Sony contracted assembly and manufacturing plants are actually distributing information off the record to obscure techy websites. Given the realities and locations of modern console manufacturing it is at least plausible that they could be.

 

[hawkeye122]

I think it makes sense to at least start on something. This gen of console's won't last forever, so to have
something to release later down the road, they have to start somewhere right? Personally I'm still expecting
a few more years out of the PS3, simply to justify how much money I paid for it.

Agreed. Especially since my first PS3 (2nd Gen 80 gb, Backwards compatible) broke and I thus bought another one. Im hoping for PS4 on sale: Black Friday 2013- Early 2014.