| libellule said: people are out on this point .. it is not about skipping next generation, it is about temporally disrupt the console generation by avoiding to release their next console too early. In clear : delay the PS4 by 2-3 years to DISRUPT the classical "console generation" and by releasing a REALLY improved PS4 with superior hardware/technology/innovation that will avoid direct competition AND allow a not so high release price ... |
Except that they will be facing two entrenched competitors which in a retail space where competitors may have been already been able to get their machine as cheap as Sony new one. If they wait to long they miss the development cycles that will start that generation of games and we see the same thing we saw with the PS3 early on only far worse.
It's about cutting your losses and trying to evolve your company towards something new. Even if best you can hope for is Apple lite with better games(and they'd better get out there before that last statement isn't true anymore)







