The Next Sony Home Console?

[Musouka]

1. The Japanese hate the number 4. For instance there were no Canon G4 or S4 IS cameras. They went from 3 directly to 5.

From Wikipedia:

Canon, based in Japan, omitted the number 4 from the range due to cultural superstition.

"The word "four" is read as "si" in Chinese Mandarin and "shi" in Japanese, a close homonym for the word for death in both languages.

Amateur Photographer magazine also supported this:

"the truth behind the leap from 3 to 5 is one based on cultural superstition — in Japan, the number 4 is considered unlucky. This is because the pronunciation of 4 — “shi” — is the same pronunciation as death. This is the reason why the EOS range jumps from the EOS 3 to EOS 5, and why the latest IXUS digital compacts bucks the trend of the IXUS v2 and IXUS v3 models by becoming the IXUS 400. Indeed, to find a Canon camera with a model number 4 you have to look back as far as the 1950s to the Canon IV."

Sony did the same with the Cyber Shot G & H series.

I also remeber reading somewhere that Narita Airport has no Gate 4. My guess is PS400 or even PS4000 if MS did an Xbox 1080.

 

2. 2011 or 2012

 

3. DS4 with a twist

 

4. Depends on what Nintendo and MS do.