Xbox 720 or Playstation 4 will debut next year, says Activision

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Kresnik said:
Not surprised, but interested nonetheless.

I can't speak for the Microsoft side of things because I don't follow them too much, but I just cannot see Sony launching next year. PS3 is finally doing really well for them and they have a solid line-up to last them throughout the year next year, much of it first-party. Would really cut into the legs of Last of Us, God of War: Ascension etc. (unless they somehow get backwards compatibility working).

I don't think so. The way I see it these games are releasing early for a reason.  If they didn't have big plans for later on they'd leave at least one, probably TLOU, for november. GOW should sell regardless of a new console and TLOU/Beyond/Sly aren't likely to do GOW-like numbers anyway, and we don't know what kind of legs they have. PS4 release wouldn't really be that detrimental to their performances. Even less so when you consider the what the Gaikai aquisition could mean; I think we'll see the PS3 library cross over to PS4 through a streaming service, so TLOU, Sly 4 etc. could easily be avaliable on the PS4 at its launch.

There's still the handful of 'up in the air' games as well... Versus XIII, The Last Guardian, even Agent... then again, if Sony has somehow convinced Rockstar & Squeenix to move them to early PS4 and they've got TLG pushed back as well... that's going to be some serious selling power for the console, which is definitely good for them.

TLG will be on PS4. As for Agent... who knows? I doubt we will ever see it again. 

I also wonder that - if it was Sony, for arguments sake, where would they reveal it? They've kind of abandoned E3 these past couple of years and gone full-out at Gamescom, which honestly wouldn't be a bad move for them. Europe seems to be continuing strong as Sony territory at the moment. Then again, E3 would pander to an American audience that they could do with winning some ground in again.

Announcement a few days before E3 and then the reveal at E3, according to the latest rumour, which I believe.