| Dean Evans said:
Whatever the PS4 looks like, the final question to be asked is: when will it launch? Sony's Kaz Hirai has already given us a hint: "If you look at the history of the way we've managed our console business," he said, "we always try to hit a 10-year life cycle " That might put any PS4 launch back to 2016. But when you consider that the PS2 is still chugging along in the shadow of the PS3, a PS4 could easily sit alongside and overlap the existence of the PS3. |
Typical mistake to take the "10-year life cycle" statements to mean that PS4 will launch 10 years after PS3. Sony has never said anything like that. 10-year life cycle means, a given console will continue to sell for 10 years even though a newer console has come onto the market. The life cycles overlap, in other words.
And: there will be optical drives in the next "gen" of consoles. The option to download will just be much more widely available.
