| Persistantthug said:
You and a few other's keep saying this.....that "hey, times are different....get with the new times man....console information output isn't the same anymore". Yeah I keep hearing that sentiment, yet, here we are with a WII U on the horizon, and it in fact had a 1 1/2 year of lead time. No personal offense to anyone, but it sounds like some of you are trying to shovel up some fresh bullshit in order to hold on to your Hopes & Dreams. I'm a reasonable guy.....but all I ask is that you give me something reasonable. And so far, a PS4 2013 holiday release sounds pretty unreasonable right now. That's truth. |
I don't think anyone is saying Sony has to release their console in any particular way except for you, which makes you the only unreasonable person in this conversation ...
With the PS3 Sony began announcing the hardware not that long after the launch of the PS2, and steadily released 100% BS about the capabilities of the Cell processor years before the PS3 was first demoed; I don't think you're arguing that Sony would (has time to) duplicate this strategy. With the XBox 360 Microsoft announced the XBox 360 officially in May of 2005 and released it 6 months later in November of 2005; and your assumption is that consoles can't be successful when launched this way.
At its core the reason why companies unveil a product when they do and release it has a lot to do with their strategy for the market segment. Sony telegraphing a far off release for the PS3 was good for the (underpowered) PS2 because it prevented rumours of Sony being forced to cut the generation short to compete against more powerful systems; and (on a similar note) Nintendo could have prevented Pachter's FUD about the Wii HD by using a similar strategy, and started talking about the hardware that would be part of their next generation system in 2008 (and making it clear that this wouldn't be ready until 2012 or later). Microsoft's 6 month window was (probably) driven by their feud with nVidia which (essentially) stopped production of the XBox.
I personally believe that both Microsoft and Sony are in a similar position to where Nintendo was with the DS and Sony was with the PSP prior to announcing their next generation handhelds. They both have platforms that are selling well at fair prices that have a solid profit margin and they don't want to negatively impact that by announcing their system's replacement.
