NO!

I don't think Sony can afford to lose money for another 7 years. Even the most ardent fan will realize that after 5 years of claiming "this will be the year of the PS3" that something is wrong. Sony will be forced to releases the PS4 in the middle of the PS3's lifecycle and they'll need to increase the price of both. I predict Sony will take a page from Nintendo's playbook and the PS4 will be less technologically advanced than the Wii (because it will be all they can afford). I can see it now Sony will lose all of it's exclusive titles to systems with superior install base. In the end the PS4 will be reduced to fighting over bargain bin shovelware franchises with the next gen "LeapFrog" console.

Yes. Not only does it have games, but it's also a Blu-Ray Player.

@ Snozzle

Why would you think this to be the case? The technology has meanwhile already gotten a lot cheaper to produce, also as time goes on the userbase gets bigger and bigger, so software sales will bring in money even at break even levels with regard to the hardware.

Production costs were very high early on with regard to R&D and production, the PS3 is already very mature so less money has to be invested on R&D. Considering production costs Sony had to make sure they weren't selling too many consoles at a too cheap pricing, but as time goes onwards it becomes more and more interesting to keep the PS3 on the market for as long as possible.



It has only been almost 2 years since the PS3 launched here in Europe and is yet to officially launch in some countries.

The PS3 had a great year with regard to software quality, sales were solid as well. Sure hardware sales could have been even better if they dropped the entry pricing, which hasn't changed for the past 1 and a half years. But considering the economic situation that was probably a wise decision, only drop the pricing if you are near break even with regard to the hardware (it's a far ahead of its time product anyhow, there's plenty of time left to become aggressive with pricing).

Considering how bad Sony is doing as a company they may actually delay coming out with another system. But I already thought they started doing R&D.

Either way the PS3 won't be successful like the PS2 i 7-8 years so....

Still it has a chance to eek out better then the Xbox and Cube were doing.