Rumour: PS4 Now In Development.. to be launched by 2012?

[heruamon]

Gilgamesh said:

I'm shocked that there is still people that think that the ten year plan means Sony won't come out with another console until 2016? there just going to keep supporting the PS3 until 2016 like all the other platforms Sony came out with...

Now that I got that off my chest, 2012 seems like a good year. Sony is playing it smart, looks like there going back to the PS1, PS2 days when there console was plain, simple and plays great games.

But only 2 times as powerful as the PS3? wasn't the PS3 40 times more powerful then the PS2?

So it looks like there not going to focus on graphics for the PS4 (which isn't really that bad of an idea, it'd make things much simpler and cheaper for them) so they must be coming out with something new and different aswell, it can't be just a console twice as powerful as the PS3 and that's it, there must be something different there adding to it.

Yeah, I'm not sure why people think 10-year plan means no other consoles releases.  I will say this though...at this point, releasing a new ps console in 2012 would be problematic for continual support of ps3, unless there is more traction on gaining market share by the end of 2010.  I'm not saying developers won't support the ps3, it's just that developers have limited resources, and maximum ROI is the goal.  If the ps4 is going to be similar to the ps3 in programming for, this would be a plus, but if the nexbox and wii 2 are still much easier to program for, then those consoles would get the majority of developmental resources.