Sony Doesn't Want to be Late with PS4

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Zappykins said:
I think they will launch in 2013/2014 with the Next Xbox. With both selling well and (probably) making good profits there is no reason to jump into a new system. (Even with PC's graphics being a whole gen better, customers are still buying consoles.)

Now, if the WiiU starts dominating, they might move things up!

PS Just want to remind everyone that many at MS thought the PS3 was going to launch in 2005, which is why they brought out the X360 at that time. It makes since PS1 1995, PS2 2000, so PS3 might have been 2005. They wanted to stay current and seemed to have rushed and obviously had a problem. I think they were trying to stay current not so much get a 'jump' on the competition. Just turns out that they did.

Actually PS1 released in 1994. So the Playstation franchise has a tradition of releases between 6 years.

The problem of PS3 was not releasing 1 year after x360. It was being very expensive and having the same or worse graphics than 360. Also for not having a good line-up until 2008/2009.

If Sony took off the Blu-Ray of the machine and substituted for a very good GPU at the time like 8800gtx, then I think that even selling at $600 PS3 would dominate the market(not on the launch but after 1 year or 2). Paying $50 or $100 more for a PS3 would bring way better graphics and maybe more exclusives(a lot of games went to 360 because of the graphical similarities).