So, about the name for the next Playstation Home Console

[Andrespetmonkey]

VicViper said:

Andrespetmonkey said:
PS4 in the west, possibly something else in Japan since they don't like 4 for reasons I don't remember.

I heard some time ago it was due to the number of fingers crimanals/honorless people had - since they had to cut off one of their fingers, after a crime/dishonor act.

So it became a bad luck number. I don't know if it's true, but it's a cool story bro.

Quick google found this: " The Japanese word for four ("shi") is pronounced the same as the word for death. " 

This story isn't as cool as the one you mentioned though