enditall727 on 14 November 2011
| NightDragon83 said: Wii U 2012 NextBox 2013 PS4 2014 That's the way it is. Sony can't afford to launch another system within the next 2 years yet when the PS3 is finally starting to turning a profit for them, and with the impending Vita launch which is going to drain more cash from Sony (they're selling it at a loss), and where the long-term success of the platform is still very much up in the air. The traditional "5-year" console cycle is long gone as of this generation. And even when it comes to Sony, they haven't had to stick to the arbitrary 5-year cycle the way Nintendo, Sega, and more recently M$ did... PS1 was already out for almost 5-1/2 years before PS2 launched in Japan, and it took more than 6 years between the PS2 and PS3 launch. Sony is only going to make their move when M$ does, because they don't feel that the Wii U is as big of a threat to them, as it's only catching up to the 360/PS3 in terms of power and graphical abilities, and won't be leaps and bounds over the PS3 like the "NextBox" will be. |
okay everybody seems to be pointing at the cost's/loss and what not and i can understand that BUT
how exactly do you know that Sony will make the move when M$ does? what if Sony just says "screw it" and decides to release there console before Microsoft does? what if they decide to roll with the weaker console? if Sony roles with the weaker console(which is pretty much what happened in the 6th generation) they will leave M$ in the dust HANDS DOWN and the console will for sure cost less to make because they wouldn't have had to outdo what M$ might bring next gen(not even mentioning that microsoft would try to outdo Sony resulting in them launching a year after them)
it would suck but hey as long as Sony brings the games then im cool :)
