Kinect and Move are ‘experiments’ that will be used in the next console generation, 2K boss Christoph Hartmann reckons. He disagrees that Microsoft and Sony are avoiding making another console. Instead, he says Kinect and Move are merely ways for the platform holders to ‘test the water’ before launching new …
Read More »No PS4 ‘for quite some time’
Sony has again stated that it has no immediate plans for the launch of a console successor to PS4. "PlayStation 3 is really just hitting its stride," SCEA CEO Jack Tretton told Forbes. "And technologically, I don’t think it’s possible to provide any advancement beyond what we have. "What we’ve …
Read More »Sony cuts dev spend on PS4
Sony will spend less developing its next home console than it did with the PS3. The company invested heavily in its own semi conductor facilities for the PS3 but says this kind of spending won’t happen with its next console, reports Andriasang. Speaking at an investors briefing, CFO Masaru Kato …
Read More »Sony hints at PlayStation 4 development
Hardware manufacturer confirms cash is being spent on a new platform
Read More »Sony confirms PlayStation 4
With Wii 2 due to be unveiled at E3 and rumours of new Microsoft hardware abound, it was only a matter of time before Sony dropped hints about its plans for the next generation. Sony’s executive vice president and chief financial officer Masaru Kato has confirmed that the company is …
Read More »New consoles still three years away?
Gamers could face a wait of up to three years before successors to the Xbox 360 or PS3 are launched, anonymous sources have supposedly told Kotaku. It says that 2014 is the date being banded about internally at both companies, though both would also consider a 2013 launch if market …
Read More »Sony: PS4 not even being deliberated
SCE boss Kaz Hirai says PS3 hasn't reached mid-cycle yet
Read More »Sony ‘not deliberating’ PS4
In keeping with Sony’s ethos of a ten-year life cycle for its home hardware, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai has claimed that Sony isn’t even strategising its next home console. "We’re not even at the halfway point [with PS3]," Hirai stated, as reported by Kotaku. "Every year, we reveal …
Read More »Hirai: PS4 not download-only
SCE CEO Kaz Hirai has ruled out future digital-only PlayStation consoles – despite being the first platform holder to launch one with PSPgo. We do business in parts of the world where network infrastructure isn’t as robust as one would hope,” he said. There’s always going to be requirement for …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox 720 will hurt retail
Next gen consoles will shun retail in favour of digital, says analyst firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR). The prediction was made by EEDAR CEO Greg Short duringa speech on the state of the games market, which he deliveredat GDC Europe today. He said that digital is growing at …
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