could sony release PS4 in 2016?

[joeorc]

NintendoPie said:

It seems like you're saying that catering to Sony's fanbase is important. More important than sales. Well, I agree that catering to their fanbase is important, but sales are very important too. If Sony wants to have a chance with (at least) OK sales then they must release the PS4 this year or next year. 2016 isn't an option. It's just too far from when MS would have released their console and Nintendo has already released their console. There would be a lot of competition for Sony once they would have released the PS4.

well while i see what you are saying, i think many are looking at this market dynamic as from the past, and not they way it is now. I think with the Move to the Playstation Mobile, Sony is looking at this market for Game console's as not a transition of PC development 3rd party = to port to Consumer electronic's IE: Game consoles. Instead I think Sony is Looking at Game console's as in PC development as = to developing to console's and Consumer Electronic's as the only Platform they are targeting.

what i mean by this is, is instead of trying to get the 3rd party PC centric developer's to include their console as a port machine. Sony is targeting the Smartphone,Tablet and Smart TV centric developer's to make console game's.

Game console's such as OUYA. smart TV's and Tablet's are more and More encroaching on this part of the market, they did this before with the dedicated PDA market. Sony trying to get 3rd party Exclusives from 3rd party publisher's when both Nintendo and Microsoft can out bid them 5 to 1 or 10 to 1, is not in the cards. So Sony would loose out on that very end anyway. remember Sony is also a publisher of software for 3rd party companies. Unless you pay them money you are not going to get priority anyway. So concentrating on a Consumer electronic's market smart devices like GAIKAI, AND Playstation Mobile and PSN is the priority. they just spent over 1.4 billion on Sony Ericsson, than darn near half a billion on investment on Gaikai. Sony does not want Microsoft to do to the Consumer electronic's market what they already done to the PC, IE: to be the priority of development for Microsoft platforms 1st everyone 2nd. Sony is trying to make Playstation a Consumer electronic's unified platform in of itself, to be developed on for Consumer electronic's. Not PC Game's porting to console's vs Microsoft is a situation Sony frankly know's the outcome. against Nintendo Sony knows the strength of their 1st party. but Nintendo is not making a unified Smart devices platform, Like Sony is and Microsoft is doing just that with windows 8 and xbox. Sony is trying to beat microsoft to the punch. 

So they can atleast have a priority platform in the market that is not just tied to Microsoft having the priority for development in the Consumer electronic's industry like they already do, in the PC market.

SMART TV,SMARTPHONE'S AND TABLET'S+ GAME CONSOLE'S+Network's = WHAT SONY IS CONCENTRATING ON NOW TO MAKE A UNIFIED PLATFORM FOR PLAYSTATION!

Microsoft want's to not only Keep PC as the main development platform for games being made be Windows, but they also want Game console and consumer electronic's platforms to be the same.

Sony releasing 1st or last will not really matter that much when you are facing a company that can outspend you 10 to one, Sony sony is doing the only thing they can do change what platform Playstation is mainly targeting.

I mean lets just say for the sake of argument, Sony wait's until 2015 to release a platform, would many on this site even give Sony a chance to be relevant anymore in the game console industry? really right now there is many on this site that Sony is in a downward trend and there is no hope for them at all. they are already call it over for Sony already. the Mindshare damage has already been done on Sony for a while already as is. Many see it as Nintendo and Microsoft as really only the one's for next gen with any strength or teeth anyway. Sony has already been set to junk status . the point is Sony at this point is no longer the lead in software or hardware at this point so going less in market share, or Mind share is going to happen anyway. 

sony IS REBUILDING IT'S BRAND, and it's showing that it will take lot's of time and investment. which Sony is showing more and more they are willing to do so. the the  downsizing of the rest of the company to do it.

taking the Playstation Platform to more of a smartdevices platform is what Sony's doing right now , because they infact see where Apple, and Samsung is going. what happens when smart TV's have advanced gameing with 3rd party's concentrating iP's on smart TV's. its a challenge for the livingroom remember.