Kresnik said: I kinda don't see this happening either. Was actually thinking about this today. I'm really surprised that God of War: Ascension is on PS3 at the moment. They did nearly exactly the same thing with God of War 2, which released in EU the month after the PS3 did (although obviously, not quite as bad here). It looks like Sony are going for "PS3 is finally profitable, Microsoft haven't announced new Xbox yet, lets make sure we get every penny from it". I can see why they're doing that because well, financial troubles and all that.
If I were them, though, I'd go fast and hard (tehehe) on the PS4. I'd get it out by holidays 2013, I'd have a launch lineup of Killzone 4, Gran Turismo 6, God of War: Ascension and hopefully Uncharted 4. That would sell the thing like bloody hotcakes in the West. Obviously, they'd need something for Japan too (Japan Studio game? Nippon Ichi? Tales of Xillia 2 on PS4?) And then I'd leave a few studios to finish up for PS3 - The Last of Us from ND team 2, maybe one of Media Molecule's IP's, perhaps a cross-platform Vita/PS3 WipEout from Studio Liverpool and probably Infamous 3 (if it were in fact in development) as well. They kind of have an opportunity here to get into the next gen earlier and better than MS, especially since there's very little chance of there being new Halo, Gears or Forza games coming out by holidays 2013. But whatever, I'm not a businessman so I don't know what would work best. And besides, this works better for me because it means no new hardware investment to play sequels to games I love! |
All bad ideas on your part.
1. Bad economy
2. Most developers aren't ready for PS4, nor are they ready for next gen yet.
3. PS3 already has great software tech coming in 2013 with THE LAST OF US, BEYOND 2 SOULS, WATCH DOGS, and GOD OF WAR, and according to HHG, UNCHARTED 4, and INFAMOUS 3. Why do we need a PS4 right now? What for?
4. Online has extended the life of current consoles, and GAIKAI is set to extend it further.
5. Why do you want crappy tech in your PS4? trying to release it soon would render a SUB 2 teraflop GPU, and we'll be sucking wind again doing 720p before 2020. Waiting until at least holiday 2014 would get us much better hardware and we could possibly get something along the lines of An ATI 7950 or 7970, which would move us into the 3 teraflop range, and we could pretty much be assured of 1080p at a probable 50 -60 frames all through 2022.
Why do you want to be saddled with shitty hardware?
No offense but I'm glad you don't make decisions for Sony, because you have some terrible ideas.......Idea's that you don't seem to really comprehend or fully calculate the overall consequences.