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shakarak on 04 September 2012
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Andrespetmonkey said:
Hawkeyejonjon said:
curl-6 said:

First of all, look at Sony's financial situation. They have their hands full, to put it lightly. Can they really afford to invest in the mass production and marketing of a next gen home console right now? 

It's in their best interest to keep the PS3 going for as long as possible now that it's profitable, and releasing a PS4 would cut a lot of the legs out from under the PS3. (In the tradition of Sony hardware, it won't cut it short completely, but it will steal the wind from its sails somewhat) Luckily for them, the PS3 is still selling quite decently, and still has quite a lot of room for expansion through price cuts to $200 USD and below. (The rumoured super slim would fly off shelves as well) Because of this, they're in a position where they can afford to hold off on next gen.

I often see the argument that letting competitors get a head start is a terrible mistake, but it didn't stop consoles like the SNES, PS2, and Wii not only becoming successful, but outselling their quicker-to-the-market rivals.

In short, there's little incentive for them to launch next year, and the cost is a deterrent, so my bet is we won't see a PS4 until 2014 or later.

 

EDIT: Post 666. Honestly a coincidence.

um they are in financial problem when they announced the vita and released it, so that shouldn't be a reason. look at their tvs,cameras,laptops,phones,and more that they are making. they gotta make sure ps4 sells at a profit not at a loss and it will be fine. They cannot sell ps4 at a loss this time.Oh It will not harm ps3 sales. Look at psp and ps2. Psp still sells well even when psp vita is out and ps2 did sell very well in 3+ years of ps3's life and it still sells well at gamestop. 

Why do people think this?

Of course they can sell it at a loss, just not a spastically high loss the PS3 was sold at. $50-100 loss? That's absolutely fine. Think about it like this: jonjon buys his PS4, Sony loses $75 from that. jonjon then buys 10 games, a couple themes, some DLC, maybe subscribes to PS+ or Netflix... etc etc. in the first year of ownership. Basically, SCE easily makes that money back soon because most of their money comes from software, not hardware. The more hardware sells, the more software sells, so it makes sense to take a loss on the hardware so it's cheaper and more people will buy it.


But consider (if they are first party)  that those games they are counting on selling to make a profit also had their own Budgets and they have to sell x amount to break even for them to se successful, let alone contribute to Sony's bottom line.  Also include the R  & D of the PS4 itself.  I just don't think it's feasable for Sony to sell the ps4 at even a $100.00 loss.