PS4 Is 'Not A Successor' To PS3 But 'An Addition To The Family'

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Except the truth is that the PS4 is the successor to the PS3, as the PS3 was to the PS2 and as the PS2 was to the PS1.

The real information you should take from this is the giveaway that it's from a Middle East source, we all know that consoles in lesser developed countries don't launch at the same time and the older console stays as the main one for much longer even years after release of the successor.

Take PS2/PS3 for example, in some countries the PS2 is still sold as a modern console.

News means nothing and people will take this out of context. It doesn't actually mean anything anyway, it's not Sony's decision on if it's a successor/or a member of the family. That's down to publishers and if they decide to continue support with original content for the PS3/older console.

Historically it's been proven time and time again that "latest addition to the family" type comments are basically 100% PR fluff to give a positive spin on an old product. The symptom of which and reality is that the older console receives little to no new original content and is swamped with poor quality ports from the next gen of consoles.

PS1/PS2/PS3 - Both the same things happened there too, and the interesting part to prove the point even further is that the PS2 install base was incredily high but even then it got virtually no original content after the PS3 released. Only in Japan was the case different.

Also MegaDrive/Genesis, same there.
SNES - Same there.
n64 - got dropped completely more or less.


All I can say is, if you enjoy playing Sports games then this won't be a problem ;)