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Next-generation consoles won't arrive in 2012 "or the year after", reckons Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim director Todd Howard.

When asked by PSM3 magazine how long he thinks we'll have to wait for successors to PS3 and Xbox 360, Howard said he thinks "consumers are happy" with current hardware.

"I think it's going to be a while still, I really do. I think consumers are happy with the current ones, there's a lot you can do with them," he said. "So I don't think it's coming next year or the year after."

Quizzed on earlier comments that Bethesda was considering waiting until the next PlayStation and Xbox hardware to release Skyrim, Howard said that conversations over moving the title to next-gen consoles were "very serious".

"We want [Skyrim] to be fresh. We don't want it to feel, visually or technically, 'Oh this is Fallout 3' or 'this is Oblivion' And if we couldn't do that we would have waited," he said.

2K global president Christoph Hartmann recently claimed Microsoft and Sony are already "experimenting" with Kinect and Move for what could be the foundations of their next-generation console plans.

Hardware giant AMD piped up last month to claim the next Xbox will feature graphics on a par with James Cameron's Avatar.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/314055/no-ps4-xbox-720-before-2014-says-skyrim-boss/

I'd love to make him a $10,000 bet that they will launch by December 2013.

I think he is right

Sounds about right, next xbox might launch a bit sooner then ps4 though

i hope he's right cause i don't need new hardware as my PS3 is about to be 2 yrs old this fall

Really? Because the marketing director for cadbury told me they were already out

If he said so with that epic skyrim background music while he said so, then I believe him.

eh not sure

MS will release there "Service" in 2013, but it will be in its infancy for a while because they will be most likely buying exclusives for development this year and next year for this service and considering it takes around 2-3 years to develop a "good" game for a next gen platform.

SONY will start there studios developing titles for there next system next year and many of them will make one more title for the PS3 before moving to develop for the PS4, example Uncharted 4 (or 3) could be the last uncharted Naughty Dog makes before moving on to create a new ip for the next system.

But we all know that SONY will not release a system with low support and would want its first year to have a array of big hitters from its first party studios and a few from 3rd party to go along with the array of ps3 ports of games that are released that year.