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

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Kresnik said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

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.

 

God of War is a fair point, I forgot GoW2 released after the PS3 had released worldwide and still managed okay sales.  Still the lowest of the trilogy though! 

GOWA is actually tracking much higher than GOW3 in US pre orders (last time I checked it was 60k vs 20k in the same time period). I doubt the gap will be nearly that big at release but it's an indication of huge sales early on, meaning it won't need legs to make a good profit.

And while it's true that we've got dates for Sly and God of War early next year, I believe there's still nothing concrete for Beyond/The Last of Us, which could theoretically be subject to delays towards the end of the year.

I don't remember the last time Naughty Dog missed a release date, so there won't be delays. And they've shown so much of TLOU for so long I don't see it going another year without releasing. This isn't studio Japan lol. They will also be showing the next Uncharted in some capacity at E3 on Orbis so that'll give them even more of a reason to have TLOU out before then, so they can focus on the next project. (you can disregard that last bit since it's of course speculation). Beyond I could see releasing late 2013 but would it really matter? 1 million for that game will happen regardless and that's probably what they're banking on. 

You're right about Gaikai too, but I don't really know enough details about how that would work.  How would they get a system going where if you bought a boxed copy of the game, you'd be able to play that on PS4?

It could look at your trophies, saves, anything. Downloaded titles are easy, and maybe for boxed copies you could put the disc into the system and you'd unlock it (of course this would only allowed to be done once for each disc). I don't think this is that big of a hurdle, it can't be too complex. 

As a final aside, what do you think about Versus XIII?  I know you might not be following it too closely or anything, but it's genuinely my most anticipated game at this point.  PS3, PS4, Wii-U(?) or cancelled altogether?

I have absolutely no idea ;)