Sony isn't going to have a particularly happy holiday this winter season, largely due to the fact that its flagship product, the PlayStation 3, is losing the console war against its main opponents, the Xbox 360 and the massively popular Nintendo Wii.
Although some analysts, like Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter, have linked the poor sales with the slow adoption rate of HDTVs, other people are considering the fact that the Japanese company might even detach itself from the PS3 and make a new console, which would be more competitive with its rivals.
And so, rumors of a PlayStation 4 have started to surface, but, as soon as they appeared, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, came forward with a statement regarding the possibility of his company developing a new console. Reeves declared to the Dutch TV station RTL that such a thing wasn't in the long-term plans.
“I'm not even sure if that's being considered,” said Reeves. “It's certainly nothing I can talk about. I have absolutely no knowledge of it whatsoever. Not even sure it's being planned. We're still continuing to develop products that we put in our mid range plans six months ago, one year ago.”
Even though these statements are very well founded, it does seem that Sony intends to support the PS3 for quite some time. This goes along with the statement that Microsoft made regarding this current console generation, namely that it would be the longest that the gaming industry has ever known.
Until other rumors pop up, it's safe to say that a new PlayStation won't appear for a while. Let's hope that Sony will offer more support for the current console and make it more attractive for the regular customers.
