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

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JEMC said:

jadakiss1217 said:
I do not think the PS4 nor the XBOX720 will be coming out at the end of the next year--both systems will debut at next year's E3,but you usually do not release a new system the same year of its debut.The last company that tried this was Sega,with the debut of the Sega Saturn,and we all remember how that turned out.

You are forgeting Microsoft with the Xbox360, revealed and launched in 2005, and the fact that announcing the nextbox/PS4 one year before launching would be bad for the sales of their actual machines, as many people will hold their purchases (waiting to buy either the successors or the PS360 at a lower price).

But they don't even have to wait for E3 to reveal them. Microsoft, again, unveiled the Xbox360 during an MTV special 1 month before E3.

And given that the early adopters of a console are fans of that brand or *sigh* hardcore gamers, both of them groups that follow internet sites and all the events related to videogames, nothing stops Microsoft or Sony to reveal them during the GDC in March or, given their focus on the living room and being the utimate media center, the CES Show in January.

Then, they can leave E3 to show all the games and other features to the masses who will be pleased to hear that they will be able to buy it that same year, just like Apple fans know the existance of a successor for their iwhatever just weeks before launching.

You are right JEMC,Microsoft is the first company to successfully debut and release a gaming console in the same year.But traditonally you usually debut a gaming console a year before release,as we seen with the WiiU.

I totally forgot about that MTV special back in May 2005