All Sony-owned studios making PS4 games

[Dodece]

Hold on just one minute. This level of support for the PS4 carries with it some implicitly bad things as well. Others have pointed out that this is tantamount to killing off most if not all first party support for the Vita. That is only half of it though. It also means the same thing for the PS3. Isn't this a tacit admission on the part of Sony that they are abandoning the PS3.

I personally never put much stock in Sony's claims that they would actively support the platform for ten years, and I sure as hell didn't believe the almighty Kaz when he proclaimed as much, but I had the ten year life cycle thing tossed in my face more times then I can count. Yet here we have Sony confessing that they are going to do what they lead people to believe that they weren't going to do. By abandoning their platform when it isn't even seven years old.

I think this behavior deserves at least some token acknowledgment. Sony just fucked you guys over, and you are plain acting thrilled to death about it all. Setting aside the fact that many current owners probably cannot afford, or have the desire to replace their console this year, or maybe even next year. Someone out there probably took the almighty Kaz at his word, and got fucked over royally in the bargain. Ten years of support was the justification for that outrageous price after all.

I know someone is going to argue that Sony can put the platform on cruise control, or some form of life support, but was that what was being implied. Sony is literally doing what Sony said it wasn't going to do to the people who supported them at the start of the generation. Can anyone square this circle for me, because it all seems callous, and manipulative. Here is a direct quote.

Kaz Harai

"I think that we are offering a very good value for the consumers. We look at our products having a 10-year life cycle, which we've proven with the PlayStation. Therefore, the PlayStation 3 is going to be a console that's going to be with you again for 10 years. We're not going to ask the consumers to suddenly buy another PlayStation console in five years time, and basically have their investment go by the wayside. So for all those reasons, I think at $599 we're offering a very good value to the consumers."

So I ask you. Is this not a sign of Sony doing what they implied they weren't going to do?