What with the Kaz Hirai fanclub lately?

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thismeintiel said:

sales2099 said:

thismeintiel said:

sales2099 said:

Relying on a companies history is panicking now? Id say you banking on a definitive launch this year is wishful thinking as its based on nothing Sony has done before, except maybe their handheld launch schedule, which was only in Japan the same year of announcing them.

Difference is, Kaz wasn't running the show then.  This is going to be just like the Vita launch.  Announced early 2011 and then launched in Japan, and parts of Asia, later that year.  At the very least, the PS4 will launch later this year in Japan and some regions in Asia, with a WW launch in early 2014.  Though, I expect them to want to catch the holiday season for the US, so will probably launch it in the US this year, too.  Either way, MS isn't going to be getting much of headstart, if any at all.  Good luck, MS. 

Either way your just as optomistic with nothing but speculation, with "ITZ KAZ" as your reasoning. The arrogance/acting like my idea is totally unheard of is stretching it.

But you basically just told me that you except MS to take NA and get a head start in Europe. And with MS expected to get the casual crowd this gen, good luck Sony is what I am thinking

Didn't realize we had a similar discussion going on in another thread.   

Anyway, no.  I'm saying a few months headstart for MS will do nothing.  Like I said in the other thread, the PS3 came out 1 1/2 years after the 360, yet is 5.5M ahead of the 360.  This gen, EU will most likely treat the NeXbox like the Wii U, especially if they only have to wait a few months for the PS4.  Japan will definitely go Sony over MS, so that's 2 major regions right there.  As for the US, given the price will be similar, as well as similar launch periods, it will be anyones game.  Though, I do see Sony winning back quite a bit of the marketshare it lost.  MS has got one heck of a battle going against it.

Unless offcourse MS gets the casual crowd that made Wii what it was. WiiU doesn't have that same magic and somehow I doubt the PS4 will be a casual magnet, especially with MS's very ambitious goals to be a all-in-one media/entertainment hub